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  2. Japanese honorifics - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.

  3. Ho (kana) - Wikipedia

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    ほ, in hiragana, or ホ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both are made in four strokes and both represent [ho].In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ホ can be written as small ㇹ to represent a final h sound after an o sound (オㇹ oh).

  4. 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.

  5. Mei (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Mei Hatsume, a character in the manga and anime series My Hero Academia; Mei Misaki (見崎 鳴), a character in the novel Another; Mei Narumiya (成宮 鳴), a character in the manga series Ace of Diamond; Mei Narusegawa (成瀬川 メイ), a character in the manga series Love Hina; Mei Sunohara (春原 芽衣), a character in the visual novel ...

  6. Me (kana) - Wikipedia

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    transliteration: me: hiragana origin: 女: katakana origin: 女: Man'yōgana: 売 馬 面 女 梅 米 迷 昧 目 眼 海: spelling kana: 明治のメ Meiji no "me": unicode: U+3081, U+30E1

  7. Japanese counter word - Wikipedia

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    ni two 匹 hiki small-animal- MW の no POSS 犬 inu dog 二 匹 の 犬 ni hiki no inu two small-animal-MW POSS dog 犬 inu dog 二 ni two 匹 hiki small-animal- MW 犬 二 匹 inu ni hiki dog two small-animal-MW but just pasting 二 and 犬 together in either order is ungrammatical. Here 二 ni is the number "two", 匹 hiki is the counter for small animals, の no is the possessive particle ...

  8. Kanji - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, Japanese coinages have subsequently been borrowed back into Chinese, such as 鮟鱇 (ankō, “monkfish”). The underlying word for jukujikun is a native Japanese word or foreign borrowing, which either does not have an existing kanji spelling (either kun'yomi or ateji) or for which a new kanji spelling is produced. Most often ...

  9. Mai (name) - Wikipedia

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    Mai Ito (born 1984), Japanese marathon runner; Mai Kondo (近藤 真衣, born 1992), Japanese ice hockey player; Mai Matsumuro, (born 1983), Japanese singer, composer and a former member of J-pop girl band, Dream; Mai Mihara (三原 舞依, born 1999), Japanese figure skater; Mai Miyagi (宮城 舞, born 1988), Japanese model and television ...