rice that has been cooked and then dried

love (in both senses of loving a friend or family member and a partner romantically) / very (most) favorite

to eat / (archaic, humble) to eat or drink

涸れる: to dry up / 枯れる: of a plant: to wither; to wilt; to die / 枯れる, 嗄れる: of one's voice: to become husky; to become hoarse

dead, dried leaf

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

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

beautiful; fair; pretty

beauty; that which is beautiful / a beautiful woman; a beauty; a belle

boyfriend, especially in romantic relation.