List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
obsolete reading search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- young sweetfish
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- rule, (ruled) line
- line (on a go board, shogi board, etc.)
obsolete reading usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to dig out, to gouge out, to hollow out
- to scoop, to ladle, to bail
- to jerk (one's chin)
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- carving, engraving
- chiselled features
obsolete reading abbreviation noun noun (generic)
- Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive zazen sitter), warning stick (Rinzai Zen), encouragement stick (Soto Zen)
- horsewhip
obsolete reading Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- admonition, commandment
- sila (precept)
obsolete reading irregular okurigana archaic yodan verb (archaic) yodan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb polite language auxiliary verb
- to serve (by a superior's side)
- to be
- to do
obsolete reading derogatory noun noun (generic)
- unattractive person
- coward, weakling
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) obsolete term
- evening, dusk
- evening scene, evening landscape
- light of the setting sun
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- bet, stakes