List: historical term

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  historical term  abbreviation 

• National Diet, legislative assembly of Japan (1947-)
• Imperial Diet, legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947)
• legislative assembly, parliament, congress

popular  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix)  historical term  archaic  suffix 

• state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.), province (e.g. of Canada), county (e.g. of the UK), region (e.g. of Italy), canton, oblast
• continent
• province (of Japan)
• province (of ancient China), prefecture, department
• dear

popular  obsolete kanji  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  historical term  abbreviation 

• university, college
• former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators)
• the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

popular  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• Ministry of Finance (1869-2001)
• Ministry of the Treasury (under the ritsuryō system)

popular  obsolete kanji  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  historical term  archaic 

• country, state
• region
• national government, central government
• home (i.e. hometown, home country)
• province (of Japan)
• land, earth

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  historical term  abbreviation  shogi  suffix  archaic 

• silver (Ag)
• silver (color)
• silver (medal, prize, etc.)
• silver coin
• silver general
• bank
• money

popular  search-only kanji form  abbreviation  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• South Korea, Republic of Korea
• Korean Empire (1897-1910)

popular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  baseball  historical term 

• death
• (an) out
• death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

popular  search-only kana form  search-only kanji form  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• China
• Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane)
• central part of a country, main region
• province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryō system)

popular  JLPT N2  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb  intransitive verb  mathematics  philosophy  historical term 

• extension, elongation, prolongation, lengthening
• (total) length
• extension (e.g. of one's work), continuation
• extension (of a line segment)
• extension (property of occupying space)
• Enchō era (923.4.11-931.4.26)