to make [something] / to cook / to write a literary work / to grow, to raise / to cultivate ability, to train / to draw up, form, establish / to make an acquaintance

作る: make - make a small thing, grow vegetables / 創る: create - originate, bring into existence / 造る: build, construct - build a house, or a building

a hobby (activity done for enjoyment in spare time) / one's taste (set of preferences)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

お宅: your home / お宅: (personal pronoun) you

Alternative spelling of オタク (otaku, “geek, nerd”).

啄: (on'yomi, only used in compounds) to peck at something / 琢: (on'yomi, only used in compounds) to polish / 択: (on'yomi, only used in compounds) selection, choice

宅: house, home / 託, 托: tedious talk, pontification / 栲: archaic term for 楮: the paper mulberry / 啄: the seventh of the Eight Principles of Yong / 磔: the eighth of the Eight Principles of Yong