a male given name

loyalty, sincerity, faith

conjunctive form of 誓う (chikau) [godan]

an oath, pledge / (Shinto, Buddhism) vow that the Buddha pledged to save sentient beings

to swear, to pledge, to make an oath, to vow

to live; to exist

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

(medicine) the Hippocratic oath