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List: archaic

Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.

Showing 861 - 870 of 3094 words for the list archaic. #arch
大和文やまとぶみyamatobumi

archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

  • Japanese text, sentence in Japanese
恬淡虚無てんたんきょむtentankyomu

archaic  な adjective  adjective (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  たる adjective  adverb taking the と particle  noun  noun (generic) 

  • rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless
四公六民しこうろくみんshikourokumin

archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

  • land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
六つ時むつどきmutsudoki

archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

  • (approx.) six o'clock (am or pm, old time system)
七つ時ななつどきnanatsudoki

archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

  • (approx.) four o'clock (am or pm, old time system)
八つ時やつどきyatsudoki

archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

  • two o'clock (old time system)
聖柄ひじりづかhijirizuka

archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

  • sword hilt shaped similar to the handle of a vajra
  • plain, wooden sword hilt (as opposed to those wrapped in sharkskin)
四更しこうshikou

archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

  • fourth watch of the night (approx. 1am to 3am)
五夜ごやgoya

archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

  • division of the night (from approx. 7pm to 5am) into five 2-hour periods
  • the fifth of these periods (approx. 3am to 5am)
丙夜へいやheiya

archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

  • third division of the night (approx. 11pm to 1am)

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