ないMeanings1nounearthquakepoetical termusually written using kana alonePoetic or literary term for earthquake, usually written in kana. In modern Japanese, 地震 (じしん) is the standard word.古ふるい和わ歌かには「ない」が地じ震しんを表あらわす言こと葉ばとして使つかわれることがある。In old waka poems, ない is sometimes used as a word for earthquake.
