List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
archaic な adjective adjective (generic)
- clear, vivid, brilliant
- prominent, obvious, evident
usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb archaic transitive verb
- to pair up, to form a pair, to become paired
- to mate, to copulate
- to fix (an arrow to the string)
- to place outriders on the left and right
- to make a firm promise
archaic noun noun (generic)
- Amitabha's Pure Land, Sukhavati
archaic noun noun (generic)
- the path to Sukhavati (Amitabha's Pure Land)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- fortress (surrounded by a wall, moat, etc.)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- mid-ocean sandbank
archaic suru verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to carve, to engrave
- to publish, to author
archaic noun noun (generic)
- twenty years
numeric archaic derogatory noun noun (generic)
- 900, nine hundred
- fool, idiot
numeric archaic noun noun (generic)
- 5,000,000, five million
- many