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Honorifics and Family Titles When addressing a person in Japan, it is customary to affix the honorific suffix -san after the person's name (usually the surname, but it can also be attached to the given name of a person one knows well and is on a casual level with). -San has no reference to gender or marital status, and should never be used after the speaker's own name. To be more polite or respectful, -sama may be used in place of -san. Teachers, doctors, leaders and other notable people are addressed with -sensei instead of -san or -sama. -Chan is a diminutive form of -san, normally used after the given name of an intimate friend, child or younger family member. -Kun is a casual suffix used after the name of friends and peers in a casual situation.
There are many different honorifics, but these are the ones most frequently used. Japanese use different words to indicate whether they are talking about a member of their own family or someone else's. The words used for another person's family are more polite, and can refer to the person being addressed or to some other person to show respect. In the following list, where two words are shown for "my family," the first word may also be used to refer to fathers, mothers, etc., in general. Also, in the words ending in "san," you may replace that suffix with "sama," in order to show more respect to the person. |
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My Family |
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Your Family |
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haha, okasan
chichi, otosan ani, oniisan ane, onesan ototo imoto musuko musume kazoku kodomo, ko oya, ryoshin oji, ojisan oba, obasan sofu, ojiisan sobo, obaasan tsuma, kanai* shujin* |
mother
father older brother older sister younger brother younger sister son daughter family child parents uncle aunt grandfather grandmother wife husband |
okasan
otosan oniisan onesan ototo-san imoto-san musuko-san musume-san, ojo-san go-kazoku o-ko-san go-ryoshin ojisan obasan ojiisan obaasan okusan, okusama go-shujin |
| * A Japanese wife often calls her husband "anata," which literally means "you," but is used in this case to mean something like "dear" or "darling." Likewise, the husband may refer to his wife as "omae" or "kimi," both of which are also translated "you." These terms are used in place of the person's name. |
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