List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ archaic
- body donation
- becoming naked
popular music noun noun (generic) archaic
- chord
- customary "on" reading (of a kanji) used in Japanese (as opposed to those derived from Chinese)
- Wu reading (of a kanji; as opposed to a Han reading)
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) archaic
- salesperson, shop assistant, hawker, peddler, vendor
- male prostitute
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning, determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech
- divining good or bad luck from listening to someone
popular rarely used kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb archaic
- to warn against, to caution against
- to admonish, to scold, to rebuke
- to prohibit, to forbid, to ban
- to be cautious
- to detest, to loathe
- to punish
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb archaic
- to aspire to, to aim for, to intend, to resolve
- to give a gift (as a token of gratitude, goodwill, etc.)
- to perform a memorial service
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone auxiliary verb Kansai-ben archaic
- to rot, to go bad, to decay, to spoil, to fester, to decompose, to turn sour (e.g. milk)
- to corrode, to weather, to crumble
- to become useless, to blunt, to weaken (from lack of practice)
- to become depraved, to be degenerate, to be morally bankrupt, to be corrupt
- to be depressed, to be dispirited, to feel discouraged, to feel down
- to have the audacity to, to be bastard enough to
- to lose a bet
- to be drenched, to become sopping wet
popular geology noun noun (generic) archaic
- loess
- yellow ochre, yellow ocher
- Hades, hell, underworld, world of the dead
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- five-family unit, five-man group, quintet
- five-household neighborhood unit (for mutual aid, self-protection, etc.; Edo period)
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- female help, female labor, female labour, female worker
- woman's handwriting
- hiragana