List: honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language
Words used in sonkeigo or respectful language, used to show respect to the subject of the sentence.
honorific language polite language noun noun (generic)
- one's parents' home
- one's origins, one's upbringing, one's past
search-only kanji form honorific language noun noun (generic)
- departure, leaving, starting
- standing
obsolete kanji honorific language godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to think (only used to speak of others)
- to turn one's attention toward (only used to speak of others), to have feelings for (only used to speak of others)
- to honour the target of one's emotions
honorific language noun noun (generic)
- holy master, guru
godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb honorific language archaic
- to notify, to advise, to inform
- to know
- to reign, to govern (a country)
honorific language dated term noun noun (generic)
- (elder) sister
polite language honorific language noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- (your) choice, preference, wish
archaic honorific language noun noun (generic)
- another's wife, another's daughter
honorific language noun noun (generic)
- foot, leg
honorific language abbreviation sumo suffix
- honorific added to names of makuuchi and juryo division wrestlers