List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
abbreviation archaic auxiliary
- to be
polite language archaic copula
- be, is
archaic ใใ adjective adjective (generic) adverb taking the ใจ particle
- desolate, lonely, barren
archaic noun noun (generic)
- great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family)
- crime against the imperial family (or a shrine dedicated to them, etc.)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- plotting to overthrow the government (by assassinating the emperor)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- plotting to damage the imperial palace or an imperial tomb
archaic ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- inhuman, immoral, unreasonable, outrageous, wicked
- barbarity (one of the eight unpardonable crimes, incl. killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- the emperor
noun noun (generic) archaic
- bamboo growing along a river bank
- Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides), giant timber bamboo, madake
- Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
- prostitute, the life of a prostitute
archaic noun noun (generic)
- Chinese bamboo, bamboo imported from China (often used to make flutes)
- descending vertical sword attack (in kendo, etc.)