List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
archaic noun noun (generic)
- playing the game of go
archaic noun noun (generic)
- flattery, insincerity
archaic suru verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to expose (a severed head)
noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb archaic
- bathing (of an infant)
- ablution
- receiving a blessing
rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) archaic
- dignity, credit, public estimation, face, honor, reputation
- deed of sale (for a land, forest or house)
- sale value, selling price
Buddhism expression archaic
- this impure world (as opposed to the pure land)
- feces, faeces
rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) archaic
- Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri)
- katydid, bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae), long-horned grasshopper
- cricket
rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) archaic
- run-down shabby house
- rag and scrap merchant
たる adjective adjective (generic) adverb taking the と particle archaic noun noun (generic)
- trailing (clouds), thick, heavy
- dark (mood), gloomy (feeling)
- eyeglasses
noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb archaic
- dismissal, discharge
- beheading, decapitation