List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ computing sumo abbreviation archaic
- call, summons, paging, curtain call
- call, invocation
- usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.
- telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached
- box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)
- high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period)
- unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb archaic
- to descend, to go down, to come down
- to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.)
- to pass (of time)
- to surrender, to capitulate
- to be less than, to be inferior to
- to have the runs, to have diarrhea
- to pass (in stool), to be discharged from the body
- to depreciate oneself, to be humble
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) archaic
- platform, podium, rostrum, pulpit
- (ceremonial) mound
- world (of haiku, art, etc.), (literary) circles
- mandala
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- millionaire
- one's superior, one's elder, one's senior
- virtuous and gentle person
- female owner of a whorehouse in a post town
- chief of a post town
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb archaic
- origin
- appearance of an auspicious sign that one will receive a divine mandate to becoming emperor
- birth of an emperor or his ancestors
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb archaic
- implication (in a crime), involvement
- sitting in a row (in the same seat)
popular search-only kana form sensitive noun noun (generic) archaic
- foreigner (esp. one of European ancestry), gaijin, whitey
- outsider
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb archaic
- to drift, to float
- to waft (e.g. a scent), to hang in the air
- to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood)
- to wander, to walk around aimlessly
- to be unsteady, to be unstable
- to falter, to flinch, to wince
- to live in unreliable circumstances
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) archaic
- innocence, guiltlessness, false accusation, false charge
- absence of the fact, insubstantiality, lacking substance
- insincerity, dishonesty
popular noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone historical term sensitive derogatory archaic
- log
- dace (Tribolodon hakonensis)
- test subject (of human experiments performed by Unit 731 during WWII)
- prostitute dressed as a Buddhist nun