Nounreason; significance; cause · piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...

Nounomen; sign of luck · origin; history; causation · dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

Nounengawa; external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses · bone at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish); meat at the base of a fin

Nounmarriage proposal; marriage talks

I-adjective (keiyoushi)unconnected; weakly related; alien; far beyond (one's means, ability) · having little prospect of marriage