Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Definitions

君

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

Compounds

• 君子 (jūnzǐ)

Etymology 2

From Japanese 君 ‎(-kun).

Definitions

君

1. (ACG, Internet slang) -kun
2. (ACG, Internet slang) Affectionate name suffix.

   字幕君

Related terms

• 桑 (sāng, “-san”), 醬／酱 (jiàng, “-chan”), 炭 (tàn, “-tan”), 樣／样 (yàng, “-sama”)

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: くん (kun)
• Kan’on: くん (kun)
• Kun: きみ (kimi)

Compounds

Etymology 1

/ki₁mi₁/: *[kimi] > [kimi].

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) きみ [kìmí] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [kʲimi]

Noun

君 ‎(hiragana きみ, romaji kimi)

1. lord

Pronoun

君 ‎(hiragana きみ, katakana キミ, 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 2

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.

Etymology 3

Voiced form of kimi due to compounding in suffixation.

Suffix

君 ‎(hiragana ぎみ, romaji -gimi)

1. indicates respect

   父 (ちち)君 (ぎみ)

   chichi-gimi

   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 4

/kindi/ → /kinzi/. From older きむぢ ‎(kimudi).

Pronoun

君 ‎(hiragana きんじ, romaji kinji, historical hiragana きんぢ)

1. second person personal pronoun, you
   • 970-999, Utsubo Monogatari (Fukiage, ge)

     きんぢ、この手を傳へ施す物ならば、この世になからん世なりとも、訪ひ守らん。

   • 970-999, Utsubo Monogatari (Kurabiraki, jō)

     「[...] ある時は「きんぢがつたなく吾を人気なくハ生み出したる」とさへぞの給フや」

   • 970-999, Utsubo Monogatari (Kuniyuzuri, jō)

     喜びて、見給ヒて、聲を放ちて「我が親の今々とし給ひしまで「我はきんぢを思ふにぞ黄泉もえ往くまじき。[...]」」

See also

• きむぢ ‎(kimuji)
• 汝 (なむち) ‎(namuchi), 汝 (なんじ) ‎(nanji)
• 御前 (おまえ) ‎(omae)

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

• Kojima, Noriyuki; Arai Eizō (1989) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 5: Kokin Wakashū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240005-0
• Kōno, Tama (c. 970–999) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 10: Utsubo Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 978-4-00-060010-1, published 1959.
• Kōno, Tama (1961) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 11: Utsubo Monogatari 2 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-000-60011-7
• Kōno, Tama (1962) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 12: Utsubo Monogatari 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-000-60012-5

Korean

Hanja

君 • ‎(gun)
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 임금()

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Vietnamese

Han character

君 (quân, vua)

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References

• Nom Foundation