List: historical term

gairaigo  English origin  popular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• (TV or radio) entertainer, television personality, radio personality
• talent, skill
• talent (ancient unit of weight and currency)

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  abbreviation  counter  historical term  shogi  colloquial 

• gold (metal)
• gold (color)
• gold (medal), first place (prize)
• something of great value, something golden (e.g. silence)
• money, gold coin
• sum (of money)
• Friday
• karat (measure of purity of gold), carat
• metal (fourth phase of Wu Xing)
• Jin dynasty (of China; 1115-1234), Chin dynasty, Jurchen dynasty
• gold general
• testicles

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix)  historical term 

• way, style, fashion, method, system, form, type
• ceremony, rite, ritual, celebration
• wedding (ceremony)
• equation, formula, expression
• enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryō legal codes)

popular  JLPT N1  prefix  noun  noun (generic)  abbreviation  historical term 

• new, neo-
• newness, novelty
• Gregorian calendar
• Xin dynasty (of China; 9-23 CE), Hsin dynasty

popular  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic)  transitive verb  colloquial  historical term 

• to expose (to the sun, public, danger, etc.)
• to bleach, to refine
• to rinse (vegetables), to soak
• to doxx, to dox, to make someone's private information public without permission
• to sentence (someone) to public humiliation

popular  search-only kanji form  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• certificate, certified document, authorization, authorisation
• (the) thumbs up, seal of approval
• paper with signature of the shogun or lord

popular  historical term  abbreviation  noun  noun (generic) 

• Soviet Union, USSR

popular  JLPT N2  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• Kantō (region comprising Tokyo and surrounding prefectures)
• Kantō (eastern half of Japan; during the feudal era)

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• Edo period (1603-1868)

popular  food, cooking  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix)  slang  abbreviation  business  historical term 

• finely chopped fish or meat (sometimes seared first), mince
• hitting (e.g. a drum), striking, beating, person who strikes something
• bashing, criticizing, attacking
• robbery, extortion
• springboard for discussion, draft proposal, tentative plan
• whipping (Edo-period punishment), lashing, flogging