possessing a dan (rank) / (engineering, archaeology) having steps; being stepped

steps (up and down); stairs / rating; ranking / row; line (of text) / (mathematics) multiplication table

go (board game)

player, at variety of sports, or games.

Honorific used for athletes.

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

step / rank; grade

(after a number) -th rank; -th degree black belt (in karate, judo, etc) / a section (horizonal line) in the gojūon table, which consists of kanas that have or historically have a same vowel