Short for 電気マッサージ器 (“electric massager”). / Short for 電子マネー (“electronic money”).

to soften; to relieve; to ease; to appease; to pacify

pain, ache, sore / grief, distress

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

The katakana syllable マ (ma). Its equivalent in hiragana is ま (ma). It is the thirty-first syllable in the gojūon order; its position is マ行ア段 (ma-gyō a-dan, “row ma, section a”).

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

(formal) Female third-person singular pronoun; she, her, girlfriend

(literary) they (about women or girls)

a shoulder

shoulder