List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
archaic usually written using kana alone expression
- needn't be done, as well not to do, shouldn't have been done
archaic adverb
- dripping wet
usually written using kana alone archaic adverb
- never, by no means
search-only kanji form polite language noun noun (generic) archaic
- one's business
- reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha
- bargain, discount
- money paid to a prostitute or geisha
formal or literary term expression archaic
- in (a period of time, manner), at (a time, stage in life, etc.), while
- despite, although, even
- as well as, (both) ... and ...
- at (a location), in, on
archaic suffix noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic) slang abbreviation interjection
- that is in
- who is called, that is called
- that is
- I see
archaic Ichidan verb verb (generic) auxiliary verb
- to make, to let
usually written using kana alone archaic Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to make become, to let become
usually written using kana alone archaic Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to bring into existence, to make be, to let be
archaic noun noun (generic)
- the end of things (esp. used for one's last writings)
- one's dying hour (esp. used for the death of Confucius)