polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
polite; courteous; hospitable
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
fourth rank; fourth class; fourth sign of the Chinese calendar; Denmark
binding (of a book); design (of a book cover)
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
adulthood (i.e. age 20 in Japan); one's majority
Fire Rabbit (4th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1927, 1987, 2047)
person who carries a palanquin; palanquin bearer
single letter; single character
A, B, C and D; first, second, third and fourth
Fire Sheep (44th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1907, 1967, 2027)
Fire Ox (14th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1937, 1997, 2057)
Fire Rooster (34th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1957, 2017, 2077)
below adult age; one's minority
man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryo system)
Fire Snake (54th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1917, 1977, 2037)
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
Fire Boar (24th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1947, 2007, 2067)
fourth division of the night (approx. 1am to 3am)
man between 61 and 65 (ritsuryo 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 (ritsuryo system)
kind, careful, and thorough (of an explanation, advice, etc.); thoughtful and scrupulous
T-square (technical drawing instrument)
T-square (technical drawing instrument)
men 17-20 years, subject to a quarter of the obligations of older men (ritsuryo system)
men pressed into forced labor (ritsuryo 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 ritsuryo system); commoner; servant dressed in a white uniform who carries objects for his master