若

Meanings

1. Noun

   youth
2. child (esp. of the young son of someone of high social standing)

3. Noun, prefix, Noun, suffix

   young; new

• 結婚けっこんする前まえ、彼女かのじょは若わか畑はたけ家いえの人ひとだった。

  She was a Wakahata before she married.

• 我われこそは汝うぬが父ちちの亡ぼう靈なれ。只ただ眞夜中よなかの若わか千せん時ときのみ、閻浮にさまよふ許したあれども、娑婆しゃばにて犯おかしゝ罪業ざいごうの燒き淨めらるゝそれまでは、焦熱地獄しょうねつじごくの餓鬼がきの苦くるしみ。

  I am your father's spirit, doomed for a certain time to walk the night, and during the day I am confined to burn in fires, until the evil crimes I had done in my life are burnt and purged away.