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”)

tongue-twister

Kyoto dialect

(Japanese grammar) dropping the ら (ra) in the potential form of verbs formed with られる (-rareru)

Alternative spelling of 枕詞 (makura kotoba): an epithet; introductory words; a pillow talk

a Japanese word of ancient Japanese origin (as opposed to a word borrowed from Chinese, or composed in Japan from Chinese-derived roots) / Japanese songs or poetry (such as tanka)

male language, men's words