n. (Hira=しょうしゃ) trading company, commercial business, corporation

(1) a rounded edge groove (on a column)
(2) a groover
(3) the bamboo- encased lower part of an arrow shaft

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[上司] a higher office; the authorities; one's superiors; a senior official; higher-up

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[上士] a Master Sergeant

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[商事] business affairs; commercial matters

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[商社] a firm; a concern; a trading house; a commercial house

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[喪事] death; mourning

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[常事] an affair of common [everyday] occurrence; a common event; the way of the world

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[相似] resemblance; similarity; similitude; analogy; pseudo-

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[相思] mutual [reciprocal] love; pining [longing] for each other