List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) archaic
- kitchen knife
- cooking, food
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) astronomy archaic suffix counter
- wing
- Chinese "Wings" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
- counter for birds or bird wings
popular obsolete term noun noun (generic) historical term archaic
- third month of the lunar calendar
- Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE), Yayoi culture
- thick growth (of grass, etc.)
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) adverb archaic
- limit, limits, bounds
- degree, extent, scope
- the end, the last
- as long as ..., as far as ..., as much as ..., to the limits of ..., all of ...
- unless ...
- (not) included in ..., (not) part of ...
- being very much (in a certain state), extreme amount (of a feeling, etc.)
- ... only (e.g. "one time only", "today only")
- end of one's life, final moments, death
- funeral, burial
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- physical science, natural science
- physics
- lixue (Song-era Chinese philosophy)
- philosophy
popular obsolete kanji noun noun (generic) obsolete term archaic
- sen (hundredth of a yen)
- coin made of non-precious materials
- one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency)
- one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass)
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- common camellia (Camellia japonica)
- tea produced in the mountains
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- Shimane (prefecture)
- island country
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb archaic intransitive verb
- digestion (of food)
- digestion (of information), assimilation, thorough understanding
- consumption, absorption, using up, meeting (e.g. a quota), completion
- losing one's form and turning into something else
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) archaic
- the whole world
- the whole country
- society, the public
- supremacy over a nation, government of a country, the ruling power
- having one's own way, doing as one pleases
- peerless, incomparable, superlative, world-famous
- shogun (Edo period)