List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
archaic noun noun (generic)
- sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- manservant, footman
archaic noun noun (generic)
- Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) archaic
- ornamental variety of double weeping rosebud cherry
- any cherry tree with birch-like bark
- Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- Chinese mulberry (Morus bombycis)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- rice spoon
noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone hanafuda archaic
- lick
- bottom card of the draw pile
- tasting (a nobleman's) medicine to see if it contains poison, medicine taster
rarely used kanji form pronoun archaic
- that, that one, that way
- you, thou
archaic sumo noun noun (generic)
- wrestling outside the formal tournaments, wrestling just for fun
archaic noun noun (generic)
- title for high-ranking court ladies