to start doing / to begin

novel, story, fiction

oneself / first-person pronoun: I, me (often shows the speaker's lower position in a hierarchy than the addressee) / (Kansai) you

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

Gridded paper for writing Japanese, with one character for each character. It is found especially in education.

(manga) substitute manuscript, used to fill the spot of another work in an emergency

stroke order

Alternative form of 書き留める