List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic) archaic
- unclean, dirty, impure
- bathroom, toilet (room)
- menstruation, menses
- feces, faeces
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- male help, male labor, male labour
- man's handwriting
- kanji
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- white sandbar, white sandbank
- area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles
- gravel separating a noh stage from the audience
- court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) archaic
- putting one's heart and soul (into), giving one's all
- breathing a soul into (e.g. a Buddhist statue)
- intimacy, familiarity
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb archaic
- to house, to contain, to harbour (a feeling), to hold (e.g. dew on leaves)
- to carry (a baby), to be pregnant
- to give lodging to, to accommodate
popular obsolete reading な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) archaic adverb
- grand, luxurious, lavish, sumptuous
- great, large, big (e.g. storm)
- very, greatly, extremely
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb sumo archaic
- to approach, to draw near, to come near, to be close to
- to gather (in one place), to come together, to meet
- to stop by (while on one's way to another place), to drop by, to make a short visit
- to grow old, to grow high (number, etc.)
- to grow (wrinkly)
- to lean against, to recline on
- to push one's opponent while holding their belt
- to decide on a price and come to a deal
- to be swayed by (a person), to yield to
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) archaic
- icicle
- ice pillar (for cooling a room)
- ice
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb archaic
- to arrive at (e.g. a decision), to reach (a stage), to attain
- to lead to (a place), to get to
- in the extreme case of
- to come, to arrive, to result in
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- first dream of the New year (believed to foretell one's luck)
- dream on the night of setsubun