(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

竹馬の友: (literally, friends since walking on stilts) childhood friend

竹馬: bamboo stilts; walking on bamboo stilts

千曲: a male given name

家畜: domesticated animal, domestic cattle

竹輪: chikuwa

地区: district (of a city), section / 馳駆: running around; dashing on a horse / 竹: bamboo

Alternative spelling of 私達 (“we; us”)

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

personal, private / secret