a dish made from noodles and a sauce of chili oil and sesame paste, related to the Chinese dish of dan dan noodles

(colloquial) a girlfriend (a female partner in a romantic relationship)

(literary) they (about women or girls)

褐色木炭: charcoal paper

brown charcoal

talk, speak / word, language, term / Short for 物語 (monogatari): story, tale, narrative

the vicinity of the roots of a tree

中田: a surname

(chiefly in the negative) as long as one has been alive

(polite) that person