Short for 参議院 (Sangiin, “House of Councillors”).

(casual) you (plural)

(dialectal, Edo, Tōhoku) you (standard second-person pronoun)

(informal, men's speech; or dialect) you

think

(archaic) The hiragana syllable ゐ (wi). Its equivalent in katakana is ヰ (wi). It is the forty-fifth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is わ行い段 (wa-gyō i-dan, “row wa, section i”).

Proximal demonstrative prefix, this (near speaker)

genitive of 此 (kore, “this”)

(Edo period) I; we

man, male adult person