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 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 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
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) honorific language suffix archaic
- above, over, up
- top, summit, upper part, head (e.g. of a staircase)
- surface, on (top of)
- the above (in a piece of writing), earlier part
- superior, better, higher (position, rank, etc.), upper (class)
- elder, older, senior
- with respect to ..., in terms of, as far as ... is concerned, when (e.g. drunk)
- besides ..., in addition to ..., on top of ..., as well as ...
- after ..., upon ..., on ..., with (e.g. full awareness), as a result of ...
- since ..., now that ..., because ...
- honorable, venerable, dear
- emperor, sovereign, shogun, daimyo
popular noun noun (generic) honorific language
- upper reaches (of a river), upper stream
- top, upper part, upper half (of the body)
- long ago
- beginning, first
- person of high rank (e.g. the emperor)
- government, imperial court
- imperial capital (i.e. Kyoto), capital region (i.e. Kansai), region (or direction of) the imperial palace
- head (of a table)
- wife, mistress (of a restaurant)
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) honorific language noun (suffix)
- direction, way
- person, lady, gentleman
- method of, manner of, way of
- care of ...
- person in charge of ...
- side (e.g. "on my mother's side")