each person supporting (patronizing) his (her) own favorite

pupil, educatee, student (especially in junior high schools (中学校) or high schools (高校) in Japan)

(Chinese mythology) bixi

to favor; to be partial to

favor, partiality, patronage

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

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

private; mine