List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
popular noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ archaic
- peace, tranquility, tranquillity
- happy-go-lucky
popular obsolete reading noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) ใช adjective noun noun (generic) archaic
- villainous, rascally, knavish
- independent, self-reliant
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb archaic
- to dispel, to clear away, to refresh (oneself)
- to accomplish a goal
- to make it sunny, to make clouds disappear
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- household items, furniture, furnishings, fixtures, supplies
- bow and arrow
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb dated term abbreviation hanafuda archaic
- close examination, careful investigation, close inspection, careful selection, inquiry, enquiry, scrutiny, testing
- investigation of a crime, inquiry into someone's guilt
- winner (of the most rounds, i.e. a full game)
- reciting and appreciating traditional poetry
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) archaic
- hem, (trouser) cuff, shirttail, bottom (of a kimono), train (of a dress)
- bottom part, bottom edge
- foot (of a mountain)
- tips (of hair)
- downstream
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) archaic pronoun familiar language
- myself, oneself
- I, me
- you (referring to one's inferior)
popular abbreviation noun noun (generic) archaic
- funeral service of a Japanese emperor
- Imperial mourning
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb archaic
- to fall down, to fall over
- to turn out, to play out
- to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism), to apostatize
- to roll, to tumble
- (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ archaic
- body donation
- becoming naked