lowly person; lowliness
Archaic noun referring to a person of low social status or the quality of being lowly. Not used in modern Japanese outside historical or literary contexts.
Old documents contain descriptions of the lowly class.
I (humble, archaic, male entertainers)
Only with reading しず
Archaic humble first-person pronoun historically used by male entertainers. Extremely rare and not used in modern Japanese.
There is a scene where an Edo-period entertainer says, 'I have come.'
Archaic kanji form; the word is now extremely rare and mostly encountered in historical contexts.
The historical derivation is uncertain. The kanji 賤 is conventionally associated with lowliness and humble status.