List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
honorific language archaic yodan verb (archaic) yodan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to say
archaic humble language pronoun
- I, me
usually written using kana alone suffix godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) archaic intransitive verb
- to do ... incessantly, to do ... hard
- to happen repeatedly, to happen over and over again
rarely used kanji form ใ adjective adjective (generic) archaic
- ominous, sinister, unlucky, ill-omened
- annoying
- appearing to be true, plausible
archaic yodan verb (archaic) yodan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to babble (of a stream)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- young girl unused to the ways of the world
- woman not serving in the imperial court
archaic ใใ adjective adjective (generic) adverb taking the ใจ particle
- overgrown, exuberant, lush
archaic 'ku' adjective (archaic) adjective (generic)
- difficult, hard
archaic nidan verb (archaic) nidan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be playful, to gambol, to be amused (with something), to play, to sport, to frolic, to joke
noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) mathematics archaic
- reduction, decrease
- subtraction
- reduction of penalty (under the ritsuryล codes)