List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
archaic noun noun (generic)
- thoughtlessness, thoughtless person
archaic な adjective adjective (generic)
- great, grand
archaic noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する
- climbing
abbreviation usually written using kana alone food, cooking noun noun (generic) archaic
- confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard)
- metal sword guard, polearm
archaic noun noun (generic)
- private diary, pillow book
- book of erotic pictures
gairaigo Portuguese origin archaic noun noun (generic)
- Sunday (esp. as the sabbath in early Japanese Christianity)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- royal government (esp. Ryukyu Kingdom)
godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb archaic
- to grow wild, to run to waste, to become degenerate
- to become rough (of art, craft, etc.), to lose refinement, to deteriorate (of skill)
- to intensify (of wind, rain, etc.), to become more severe
- to do as one pleases, to amuse oneself, to play around
archaic Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to crumple, to collapse
- to press, to urge, to rush
archaic noun noun (generic) noun (prefix)
- China (sometimes also used in ref. to Korea or other foreign countries)