letter, character / handwriting, penmanship

a ring (round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger)

to chop, mince / to carve, to cut / to tick away, to keep time

fighting

to hold, to carry something / to have, to possess / to hold up, to maintain

holding, possession / wear, durability

continuative of 持つ

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