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

scholar

a target, a mark, a bullseye / an objective, an object (of doing something)

as far as ... is concerned; in terms of ...

world / a metaphorical world (how one lives one's life) / society, the times / a realm, a circle, a sphere / (Buddhism) the four inner realms of 須弥山 (Shumisen) / (Buddhism) realm governed by a buddha

language, speech

in name but not in reality

(grammar) comparative

comparative literature