what sort of matter / unspecified matter

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

(archaic, women's speech, humble) I; me / (modern fiction, women's speech) I; me (used by haughty women of the highest classes of society)

(archaic, historical) a hairstyle, with the hair not tied up but hanging loose, typically worn by children / (by extension, archaic) a child older than a baby but not yet an adult

smiling through tears / joy and sadness; ups and downs

to smile through tears

笑う, 咲う, 嗤う: to laugh; to smile; to bloom; to ripen and open; to come undone; to ridicule or make fun of; (slang) to go wobbly (as in the knees) / 哂う: (rare) to ridicule; to laugh derisively, to sneer

笑い: laugh, smile