to annotate a literary Chinese text, transforming it into 書(か)き下(くだ)し文(ぶん) (kakikudashi bun)

Literary Chinese; Classical Chinese

triumphant, proud / skilled

strong point / triumph / regular customer

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

Classical Chinese (kanbun) texts read with kun'yomi and the Japanese word order

regular costumer; patron

(orthography) the Japanese reading of Literary Chinese by a literal translation