君

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

• 群 裙 郡 捃 珺 桾

• 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

Historical forms of the character 君
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *klun)  and ideogrammic compound (會意) : phonetic 尹 (OC *ɢʷlinʔ, “(hand holding a rod) to administer”) + semantic 口 (“mouth”). In the oracle bones and early Zhou bronze inscriptions, 君 (jūn) was often interchanged with 尹. Shuowen suggests that 口 represents commands, but it may simply be decorative.

“lord; prince”

Unknown. Here are several possibilities:

• Related to Old Mon kmin, kmun (“to exercise royal power; to be king; to reign”) (Schuessler, 2007);
• Related to 尹 (OC *ɢʷlinʔ, “director; governor”) and 元 (OC *ŋon, “head”) and cognate with Tibetan མགོན (mgon, “protector; master; lord”) (Mei Tsu-lin, 1985);
• The *k- prefixed derivative of 尹 (OC *ɢʷlinʔ, “to straighten; to administer”) (Baxter and Sagart, 1998); however, this is phonologically problematic (Schuessler, 2007).

ACG sense

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 君 (-kun).

君

1. sovereign; monarch; ruler; chief; prince; lord
2. (historical) A honorific title: lord
3. (literary, honorific) you; your (referring to a male)
4. A polite form of address used among couples.
5. to dominate; to reign
6. (ACG, Internet slang) -kun
7. (ACG, Internet slang) Affectionate name suffix.

   字幕君  ―  zìmùjūn  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)

8. A surname​.

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

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. king, lord, ruler
2. person of high rank
3. form of address to fellow colleagues or inferiors

• Go-on: くん (kun, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: くん (kun, Jōyō)
• Kun: きみ (kimi, 君, Jōyō)
• Nanori: きん (kin); すえ (sue); なお (nao); よし (yoshi)

⟨ki₁mi₁⟩ → */kʲimʲi/ → /kimi/

From Old Japanese.

• 公

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) きみ [kìmí] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [kʲimʲi]

君 (hiragana きみ, rōmaji kimi)

1. a ruler of a country
   1. an emperor

      Synonyms: 天子 (tenshi), 天皇 (tennō)

   2. a lord

   Antonym: 臣 (omi)

2. a master

   Synonyms: 主君 (shukun), 主人 (shujin)

3. a nobleman or other person of high(er) rank
4. (after a が (ga) or の (no) particle) term of respect to another person
5. (historical, archaic) a prostitute
6. (historical) one of the hereditary titles bestowed to local chiefs in ancient Japan

• 大君 (おおきみ) (ōkimi)

君 (hiragana きみ, katakana キミ, rōmaji kimi)

1. (informal, chiefly men's speech) second-person personal pronoun: you
   • 1086, Goshūi Wakashū (book 12, poem 669; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 50)

     君 (きみ)がため惜 (を)しからざりし命 (いのち)さへ長 (なが)くもがなと思 (おも)ひけるかな

     kimi ga tama oshikarazarishi inochi sae nagaku mogana to omoikeru kana

     I thought I would give up my life to hold you in my arms, but after a night together, I find myself wishing that I could live for ever.[3]

   • 2000 September 18, Inokuma, Shinobu, “ＰＡＲＴパート１　雨あめのち… [PART1 After the Rain…]”, in SALADサラダ DAYSデイズ [SALAD DAYS], volume 11 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 110:

     俺 (おれ)は別 (べつ)にいいけど…キミ、学 (がっ)校 (こう)で「知 (し)らない人 (ひと)について行 (い)っちゃダメ」とか、教 (おそ)わんなかった？

     Ore wa betsu ni ii kedo… Kimi, gakkō de “shiranai hito ni tsuite itcha dame” to ka, osowan nakatta?

     Fine by me… But haven’t you been taught at school that “you shouldn’t go anywhere with strangers”?

   • 2005 November 9, Watsuki, Nobuhiro, “武ブ装ソウ錬レン金キンファイナル [Armed Alchemy: The Final Act]”, in 武ブ装ソウ錬レン金キン [Armed Alchemy], volume 9, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

     来 (く)るぞ　カズキ！手 (て)を放 (はな)すな！キミと私 (わたし)は一 (いっ)心 (しん)同 (どう)体 (たい)　キミが死 (し)ぬ時 (とき)が私 (わたし)が死 (し)ぬ時 (とき)だ！

     Kuru zo Kazuki! Te o hanasu na! Kimi to watashi wa isshin dōtai Kimi ga shinu toki ga watashi ga shinu toki da!

     Incoming, Kazuki! Don’t let go! You and me, together as one. When you die, I die!

• This is an example of a word that can be spelled with katakana to convey an informal conversational tone, as キミ.
• When used in lyrics and poetry, this word is considered less colloquial and more poetic than in spoken language.

君 (hiragana ぎみ, rōmaji -gimi)

1. indicates respect

   父 (ちち)君 (ぎみ)

   chichi-gimi

   your father

• 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 (chichi, “father”) and 父君 (chichi-gimi, “dear father”).
• Used of nobles. Attaches to close family relationship nouns such as 母 (haha, “mother”), 姉 (ane, “sister”), 姫 (hime, “daughter of a noble family, princess”).

From Middle Chinese 君 (MC kɨun).

君 (hiragana くん, rōmaji -kun)

1. suffix for boys' names
2. indicates respect
3. indicates familiarity

-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.

/kimud͡ʑi/ → /kind͡ʑi/

Shift from older きむぢ (kimudi → kimuji). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

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

1. second person personal pronoun: you
   • 970-999, Utsubo Monogatari (Fukiage, ge)[4]

     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)[5]

     「[...] 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)[6]

     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。[...]」」

• あなた (anata)
• 汝 (なむち) (namuchi), 汝 (なんじ) (nanji)
• 御 (お)前 (まえ) (omae)

君 (eumhun 임금 군 (imgeum gun))

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君: Hán Nôm readings: quân, vua

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