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Japanese honorifics ·
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 | 12:33 AM | 0 Nanana
hi! in this post, I will teach you Japanese titles/Japanese honorifics
I know this from where I watch recent anime :D
I am not copying, I just write what I remember; know.
I know the original info from Wikipedia.com.
starting with -san!

· san
-san (sometimes pronounced han) is a title of respect typically used
between equals of any age, "Mrs.", "Ms.", "Mr." "Miss", san is uniersally added to a person's
name, in both formal and informal contexts. It is alsoemployed in a variety of other ways.
san can be used; combined to workplace nouns. [Example: a company name named Najima Hanake, called Hajime-san by the sales/advertiser] or -san can be used to food! wow, and animals too. [example: rabbit called Ujasi, we call it Ujasi-san]

· chan
in general uses, -chan  is used for babies, young children, grandparents, and teenagers. it may also used to cute animals, lovers, best friends, close friends, or youthful woman ~~
however, if a girl called Kirino Kousaka [Here's my favorite hehe] [her nickname is Kirino] if she called herself Kirino-chan, we can call her Kiri-chan [the very common female name, -no being Kiri-chan]

· bou
Bou is another diminutive that expresses endearment. like "-chan", it is used for young children and babies, but its exclusively called to boy rather than girls,

· kun
-kun is used from senior status in referring to junior status. or by anyone who referring to male childrens or male teenagers, it is generally used for boys, eventually for any gender... but its not matching for the girls.. i think.

· sama
sama is more respectful version of san. its used mainly to  people to much higher rank than oneself, sama actually just have a set phrases called "o-machidou samz" it means "thank you for waiting".

· senpai, kouhai ~ gakusei
-senpai is used to address  to one's senior collagues. so in the school, the students [gakusei] in higher grades than oneself are senpai .  teachers are not senpai, neither the students in same or lower grade , they are called to be kouhai or gakusei. in japanese, senpai called/pronounced as Sempai.

· sensei
-sensei generally used to teachers, professors, doctors, lawyer, and other authority figures. sensei basically used to refer of the owner of a dojo. 

Thank you for reading everyone, I am tired writing it using keyboard ._.
·· Have a nice day ♡


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