washing away sand to obtain something desirable, such as gold dust or rice / by extension, a fine-grained or careful sorting out or selection of something or someone

to wash away sand to obtain something desirable, such as gold dust or rice / by extension, to carefully sort out or select something or someone

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

river, stream

all day

the first day of the month (solar or lunar calendar)

(obsolete) one day, 24 hours / (obsolete) the daytime, the period from dawn until dusk

(rare, obsolete) (all senses appear to be identical as for hitohi above)