List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
JLPT N3 archaic ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- straight
- ordinary, common
- doing nothing
ateji archaic noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic)
- heavenly, imperial
archaic noun noun (generic)
- clouds in the sky
archaic noun noun (generic)
- virus, germ
honorific language noun noun (generic) pronoun archaic
- feudal lord
- mansion, palace
archaic noun noun (generic)
- cheating heart, fleeting heart, fickle heart
JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) abbreviation archaic derogatory pronoun
- servant (esp. a samurai's attendant)
- chivalrous man (Edo period)
- cubed tofu (often served cold)
- kite shaped like an Edo-period footman
- Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants
- enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime)
- he, she, him, her
ateji honorific language dated term noun noun (generic) archaic
- lady, madame, matron
- mistress (of a household), housewife
obsolete reading JLPT N1 archaic noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara), eastern provinces
- east
- wagon, yamatogoto, six-stringed native Japanese zither
- my spouse
dated term noun noun (generic) archaic
- bathroom
- bathing
- bathing attendant (for a noble)