polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
polite; courteous; hospitable; careful; handled with great care; treated with attention
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
binding (of a book); design (of a book cover)
fourth rank; fourth class; fourth sign of the Chinese calendar; Denmark
kind, careful, and thorough (of an explanation, advice, etc.); thoughtful and scrupulous
polite language (e.g. masu, desu)
stable boy; stable hand; groom
overly polite; excessively polite; polite to a fault
youth; young man who has reached adulthood (conscription age)
servant; janitor; messenger
person who carries a palanquin; palanquin bearer
adulthood (i.e. age 20 in Japan); one's majority
Fire Rabbit (4th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1927, 1987, 2047)
A, B, C and D; first, second, third and fourth
single letter; single character
Fire Sheep (44th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1907, 1967, 2027)
Fire Rooster (34th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1957, 2017, 2077)
below adult age; one's minority
Fire Ox (14th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1937, 1997, 2057)
Fire Snake (54th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1917, 1977, 2037)
man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryō system)
being unfit for duty in the former Japanese military (due to failing the conscription physical); person who is unfit for military duty
polite style; polite Japanese
assistant to a prison warden; jailer
Fire Boar (24th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1947, 2007, 2067)
fourth division of the night (approx. 1am to 3am)
man between 61 and 65 (ritsuryō system)
courteous language (i.e. humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener or a third party)
old and lightly handicapped men (ritsuryō system)
T-square (technical drawing instrument)
kind, careful, and thorough (of an explanation, advice, etc.); thoughtful and scrupulous
T-square (technical drawing instrument)
men 17-20 years, subject to a quarter of the obligations of older men (ritsuryō system)
men pressed into forced labor (ritsuryō system); palanquin bearer (Edo period)
young man of conscription age who has not yet undergone military training; man with no title and no rank (under the ritsuryō system); commoner; servant dressed in a white uniform who carries objects for his master