[じ, ji] (n) (1) Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations); (2) nickname; (3) section of a village #676
[たち, tachi] (suf) pluralizing suffix (esp. for people & animals; formerly honorific); (P) #905
[つま, tsuma] (n) (1) (妻, 夫 only) (usu. 妻) wife; (2) (妻, 夫 only) (arch) dear (formerly used by romantically linked men and women to refer to one another); (3) (uk) garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); (4) (uk) embellishment; (P) #991
[ぎょく, gyoku] (n) (1) (also formerly read as ごく) precious stone (esp. jade); (2) { food } egg (sometimes esp. as a sushi topping); (3) stock or security being traded; product being bought or sold; (4) (See 建玉) position (in finance, the amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); (5) geisha; (6) (abbr) (See 玉代) time charge for a geisha; (7) (abbr) (See 玉将) king (shogi) #2007
[いちじ, ichiji] (n-t) (1) one o'clock; (n-adv, n-t) (2) once; at one time; formerly; before; (n-adv, n-t, adj-no) (3) (in weather forecasts, indicates that a given condition will hold for less than one-quarter of the forecast period) for a time; for a while; for the time being; for the present; for the moment; temporarily; (n) (4) (See 一時に) a time; one time; once; (P) #2343
[おれ(P);だいこう(乃公);ないこう(乃公), ore (P); daikou ( daikou ); naikou ( daikou )] (pn, adj-no) (male) I; me (rough or arrogant-sounding first-person pronoun, formerly also used by women); (P) #2522
[ふるく, furuku] (adv, n) anciently; formerly #4612
[たゆう, tayuu] (n) (1) (See 能太夫) high-ranking Noh actor; (2) head of a school of noh performance; (3) high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); (4) (See 浄瑠璃, 万歳・まんざい) joruri narrator; manzai narrator; (5) (See 女形) female role actor in kabuki; (6) (See 御師) low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine; (7) (太夫 only) lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) #6515
[おまえ(P);おまい;おめえ, omae (P); omai ; omee] (pn, adj-no) (1) (fam) (male) you (formerly honorific, now sometimes derog. term referring to an equal or inferior); (2) (おまえ only) presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.); (P) #7190
[えぞ;えみし(ok), ezo ; emishi (ok)] (n) (1) peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); (2) (えぞ only) (See 蝦夷地) Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) #11941
[えびす, ebisu] (n) (1) (arch) (See 蝦夷) peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); (2) provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city); (3) brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan); (4) (derog) foreigner; barbarian #13165
[かいじょうほあんちょう, kaijouhoanchou] (n) Japan Coast Guard (formerly Maritime Safety Agency); (P) #13633
[きゅうらい, kyuurai] (adj-no, n-adv, n-t) traditional; from ancient times; formerly; (P) #15152
[しょうぼうちょう, shoubouchou] (n) Fire and Disaster Management Agency (formerly #17695
[しま, shima] (n) (also formerly written as 島 and 嶋) stripe; bar; streak; (P) #19117
[ユニセフ, yunisefu] (n) United Nations Children's Fund (formerly Children's Emergency Fund); UNICEF; (P)
[isso] (adv) (formerly written as 一層) rather; sooner; preferably; (P)
[おあいそ;おあいそう, oaiso ; oaisou] (n) (1) (pol) (See 愛想) compliment; flattery; (2) service; hospitality; (3) bill (at a restaurant; formerly, not used by customers); check
[yamabiko] (n) (formerly called あおば) skips-most-stations Tohoku-line Shinkansen
[イギリスれんぽう, igirisu renpou] (n) Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth)
[コンゴみんしゅきょうわこく, kongo minshukyouwakoku] (n) Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)
[hawaiango-rudoba-dobatafuraifisshu] (n) Hawaiian gold-barred butterflyfish (Roa excelsa, formerly Chaetodon excelsa)
[furunitorazepamu] (n) flunitrazepam (hypnotic drug formerly marketed as Rohypnol); roofies (flunitrazepam used as a date-rape drug)
[burakkubandeiddohoggufisshu] (n) black-banded hogfish (Bodianus macrourus, formerly Bodianus hirsutus)
[ペストきん, pesuto kin] (n) plague bacillus (Yersinia pestis, formerly pasteurella pestis)
[マラリアりょうほう, mararia ryouhou] (n) malaria therapy (formerly used to treat syphilis, etc.)
[miyakotenguhagi] (n) orangespine unicornfish (Naso lituratus, species of Pacific tang formerly confused with Naso elegans of the Indian Ocean)
[moa] (n) moa (extinct, flightless bird formerly found in New Zealand)
[いおう, iou] (n-adv, n-t) hereafter; the future; formerly; in ancient times
[えいれんぽう, eirenpou] (n) Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth)
[あたためざけ;ぬくめざけ(温め酒), atatamezake ; nukumezake ( atatame sake )] (n) warm sake (formerly drunk on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar to ward off illness)
[かくぼう, kakubou] (n) (1) mortarboard; trencher; (2) (square) academic cap formerly word by Japanese university students
[きょうちょう, kyouchou] (n) (See モア) moa (extinct, flightless bird formerly found in New Zealand)
[こくさいでんきつうしんれんごうでんきつうしんひょうじゅんかセクタ, kokusaidenkitsuushinrengoudenkitsuushinhyoujunka sekuta] (n) { comp } International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector (formerly CCITT); ITU-TS
[ざいきょう, zaikyou] (n, vs) being in the capital (i.e. Tokyo, or formerly Kyoto); (P)
[しゅうきこうれいさい, shuukikoureisai] (n) (See 秋分の日) imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the autumnal equinox
[しゅんきこうれいさい, shunkikoureisai] (n) (See 春分の日) imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the vernal equinox
[かつて(P);かって(曾て), katsute (P); katte ( katsute )] (adv, adj-no) (1) (uk) once; before; formerly; ever; former; ex-; (2) (uk) never yet (with negative verb); never before; first time; still not happened; (P)
[じょうようかんじ, jouyoukanji] (n) (See 当用漢字) kanji for common use (list of 2, 136 kanji established in 2010, formerly a list of 1, 945 established in 1981); (P)
[じんむてんのうさい, jinmutennousai] (n) Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3rd, the supposed day of his death)
[ほ, ho] (n) (obsc) (See 畝・せ) mu (Chinese measure of land area, formerly ~600 m.sq., currently ~667 m.sq.)
[せんに, senni] (adv) formerly
[せんねん, sennen] (n-adv, n-t) former years; formerly; a few years ago
[そうむしょう, soumushou] (n) Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (formerly Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications)
[たいけいどうぶつ;ふくろがたどうぶつ, taikeidoubutsu ; fukurogatadoubutsu] (n) aschelminth (any invertebrate animal formerly classified as belonging to phylum Aschelminthes)
[たんきゅうるい, tankyuurui] (n) synapsids (formerly used esp. in reference to the mammal-like reptiles)
[なんばん, nanban] (n) (1) (arch) (derog) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (2) (arch) South-East Asia; (3) (arch) (See 紅毛・2) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); (pref) (4) exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (n) (5) (usu.ナンバ) (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); (6) (abbr) (See 南蛮煮・なんばんに・2) food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions; (P)
[ふくぶ, fukubu] (n, vs) (col) (obsc) returning to a club (one was formerly a member of)
[ぼうえいしょう, boueishou] (n) Ministry of Defense (formerly Japan Defense Agency)
[まんねんたけ, mannentake] (n) (See 霊芝) bracket fungus (Ganoderma lucidum - formerly Fomes japonicus)