a personal or private matter / selfishness / privacy, secrecy / (women's speech, obsolete) a brother-in-law

personal, private / secret

(formal) first-person singular pronoun: I, me

Alternative spelling of 私達 (“we; us”)

命綱: lifeline

"to connect one's life": to survive

narrow escape from death

to have a narrow escape from death

to die (from accidents or disease)

to beg for mercy; to beg to have one's own life spared / (archaic) to pray to deities for longevity