event, incident / matter, affair / scandal

listening ear; attentive ear

direct

directness

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

菊: chrysanthemum / 起句: first section of a poem

聞く, 聴く: to hear, to listen; to ask / 聞く, 訊く: to ask / 効く, 利く: to work, to act, to be effective

帰化人: naturalized citizen