List: honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language
Words used in sonkeigo or respectful language, used to show respect to the subject of the sentence.
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 honorific language noun noun (generic) pronoun
- your house, your home, your family
- your husband
- your organization
- you
popular JLPT N1 honorific language familiar language suffix polite language
- Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, -san
- politeness marker
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb honorific language
- to hide, to conceal oneself, to take cover
- to disappear (behind), to be hidden (by), to be covered, to go out of sight
- to live in seclusion, to retire (from the world)
- to be unknown (e.g. of a talent), to be undiscovered, to be hidden (e.g. of a meaning)
- to pass away (of a person of high position)
popular JLPT N5 honorific language noun noun (generic)
- wife, your wife, his wife, married lady, madam
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone honorific language pronoun
- who
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone honorific language ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- good, OK, all right, fine, very well, will do, may, can
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone honorific language godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to say, to speak, to tell
- to be called
popular JLPT N1 honorific language polite language humble language usually written using kana alone prefix suffix
- honorific/polite/humble prefix
- honorific suffix
popular JLPT N4 honorific language noun noun (generic)
- your husband, her husband
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone interjection honorific language noun noun (generic)
- I'm sorry, my apologies, excuse me, pardon me
- may I come in?
- permission, leave, license
- dismissal, discharge
- not wanting, objecting to, being fed up with, wishing to avoid