君
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[edit] Translingual
[edit] Han character
君 (radical 30 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸大口 (SKR), four-corner 17607)
- sovereign, monarch, ruler, chief, prince
[edit] References
- KangXi: page 177, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3323
- Dae Jaweon: page 394, character 15
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 595, character 6
- Unihan data for U+541B
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
君 (Yale gwan1)
[edit] Japanese
[edit] Etymology
Historically ki1mi1. Collapsed into kimi after the loss of jōdai tokushu kanazukai.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [kimi]
[edit] Kanji
君 (grade 3 kanji)
[edit] Readings
[edit] Noun
[edit] Pronoun
君 (きみ, kimi)
[edit] Suffix
- indicates respect
- indicates familiarity
[edit] Usage notes
-kun is often used as a suffix when calling someone. The listener is lower or the same level in social position and is often, but not always, male.
[edit] External links
[edit] Suffix
- indicates respect
- 父君
- ちちぎみ
- chichigimi
- your father
[edit] Usage notes
There is no direct translation in English – as with other Japanese honorifics, it might roughly correspond to dear, as in “your dear father”.
Respectful suffixes also serve to indicate whose relative is in question: rather than “my father” and “your father”, one would say 父 (“father”) and 父君 (“dear father”).
Used of nobles. Attaches to close family relationship nouns such as 母 (mother), 姉 (sister), 姫 (daughter of a noble family, princess).
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
君
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 군 (revised: gun, McCune-Reischauer: kun)
- Name (hangeul): 임금()
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- Yale: kwun
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Hanzi
君 (pinyin jūn (jun1), Wade-Giles chün1)
