者

Abbreviation

elder sister

Familiar

mother

father

Abbreviation; Familiar

mother

calendar maker; almanac maker

者 is ateji

aunt

gambler

Rare term

disturber (of the peace); troublemaker; nuisance

Obsolete term; Abbreviation

intellectually disabled person

nice person; good-natured person

young man (who has recently undergone his manhood ceremony)

Rare term

anointed one

fencer; swordsman

coquettish woman

Rare term

blood donor

Rare term

mountain dweller; person raised in the mountains

Rare term

being a good listener; good listener

punished criminal

wife

Edo geisha; geisha living and working inside Edo (not one of the red-light districts on its outskirts)

Proverb; Rare term

where there's a will, there's a way; with ambition one can achieve anything

Rare term

support for medical treatment for those on low income; Medicaid

geisha from the Fukagawa red-light district in Edo

Rare term

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