君

Translingual

Han character

君 (radical 30 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸大口 (SKR), four-corner 1760₇, composition ⿸尹口)

1. sovereign, monarch, ruler, chief, prince, lord
2. you (honorific form of address)

Derived characters

• 群裙郡捃珺桾

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

君 (jyutping gwan1, Yale gwan1)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

/ki₁mi₁/: *[kimi] > [kimi].

Pronunciation

• IPA: [kimi]

Noun

君 (hiragana きみ, romaji kimi)

1. lord

Etymology 2

/ki₁mi₁/: *[kimi] > [kimi].

Pronunciation

• IPA: [kimi]

Pronoun

君 (hiragana きみ, romaji kimi)

1. (informal) second-person personal pronoun; you
   • 905 Kokin Wakashū (poem #21)

     きみがため春の野にいでてわかなつむわが衣手に雪は降りつつ

Etymology 3

Suffix

君 (hiragana くん, romaji -kun)

1. suffix for boys' names
2. indicates respect
3. indicates familiarity

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.

External links

• 男子も「さん」で... 「君」廃止、学校で広がる

Etymology 4

Voiced form of kimi due to compounding in suffixation.

Suffix

君 (hiragana ぎみ, romaji -gimi)

1. indicates respect

   父君

   ちちぎみ
   chichigimi

   your father

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).

Etymology 5

Kanji

君 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: くん (kun)
• Kun: きみ (kimi)

References

• 1989 June 18 [905], Noriyuki Kojima; Arai Eizō, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 5: Kokin Wakashū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240005-0:

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Korean

Hanja

君
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 군 (revised: gun, McCune-Reischauer: kun, Yale: kwun)

• Name (hangeul): 임금()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

君 (pinyin jūn (jun1), Wade-Giles chün¹)

Compounds

• 君子

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Vietnamese

Han character

君 (quân, vua)

References

• Nom Foundation