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  2. Japanese honorifics - Wikipedia

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    For example, -kun can be used to name a close personal friend or family member of any gender. In business settings, young female employees are addressed as -kun by older men of senior status. It can be used by male teachers addressing their female students. [5] Kun can mean different things depending on gender.

  3. Japanese pronouns - Wikipedia

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    Japanese pronouns (代名詞, daimeishi) are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people or things that can be pointed at. The position of things (far away, nearby) and their role in the current interaction (goods, addresser, addressee , bystander) are features of the meaning ...

  4. List of jōyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    The "Grade" column specifies the grade in which the kanji is taught in Elementary schools in Japan. Grade "S" means that it is taught in secondary school . The list is sorted by Japanese reading ( on'yomi in katakana , then kun'yomi in hiragana ), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table.

  5. Honorific speech in Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Japanese uses honorific constructions to show or emphasize social rank, social intimacy or similarity in rank. The choice of pronoun used, for example, will express the social relationship between the person speaking and the person being referred to, and Japanese often avoids pronouns entirely in favor of more explicit titles or kinship terms.

  6. Tomohisa - Wikipedia

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    Tomohisa can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples: 友久, "friend, long time" 友尚, "friend, still" 友寿, "friend, long life" 友悠, "friend, calm/distant"

  7. Rei (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Rei is both a Japanese given name and a Hebrew given name. In Japanese it could have different meanings depending on the used kanji and can be used for (or by) either gender. In Hebrew, the name Rei (רעי Re`eeY) originates in biblical texts which mean "my shepherd; my companion; my friend".

  8. Senpai and kōhai - Wikipedia

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    The senpai–kōhai relation has spread through Japanese martial arts, in which the members of different kyū and dan levels are sorted by belt colour.. The relationship is an interdependent one, as a senpai requires a kōhai and vice versa, [1] and establishes a bond determined by the date of entry into an organization. [2]

  9. Jinmeiyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    The jōyō kanji list was introduced, which included seven of the original 92 jinmeiyō kanji from 1951 (mentioned above), plus one of the 28 new jinmeiyō kanji from 1976 (also mentioned above); those eight were thus removed from the jinmeiyō kanji list. 54 other characters were added for a total of 166 name characters.