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Kanji Detail for 尊 - "respect, noble, precious"

尊

  • Meaning

    尊 means "respect, noble, precious."

    1. Respect - To honor; to revere.

    2. Noble - Of high rank; dignified.

    3. Precious - Valuable; esteemed.

  • Words using 尊

    • 尊重 そんちょう Listen respect; esteem; regard
    • 尊厳 そんげん Listen dignity; majesty; sanctity
    • 尊敬 そんけい Listen respect; esteem; reverence
    • 尊い とうとい Listen precious; valuable; priceless

  • Four-character idioms with 尊

    • 男尊女卑 だんそんじょひ Listen male domination of women; male chauvinism; subjection of women
    • 唯我独尊 ゆいがどくそん Listen throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one; self-conceit; self-centeredness
    • 女尊男卑 じょそんだんぴ Listen placing women above men
    • 官尊民卑 かんそんみんぴ Listen putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism
    • 尊皇攘夷 そんのうじょうい Listen revere the Emperor, expel the (Western) barbarians
    • 独立自尊 どくりつじそん Listen (spirit of) independence and self-respect

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    • Verified meaning: respect, noble, precious
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read そん, たかし, たけし, たける)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 尊

    Given names 尊(そん)Listen 尊(たかし)Listen 尊(たけし)Listen 尊(たける)Listen 尊(たつとし)Listen 尊(みこと)Listen

    Surnames 尊(まこと)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    revered; valuable; precious; noble; exalted

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    respect, revere, venerate; honor

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to honor, to respect, to venerate

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Honorable; valued. Such as 尊長, 尊客. | To respect. Such as 自卑而尊人. Now all respectful terms for others use 尊. Such as 尊處, 尊駕. Referring to someone's father as 尊甫, 尊人, or 令尊. | An ancient wine vessel. Such as 犧尊, 象尊. Now separately written as 樽. | Images of deities and Buddhas. One statue is called 一尊. | In old times, local officials were called 尊. Such as 府尊, 邑尊.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    son(ソン) ソン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tatto.bu(たっと-ぶ) たっと-ぶ

    tatto.i(たっと-い) たっと-い

    touto.bu(とうと-ぶ) とうと-ぶ

    touto.i(とうと-い) とうと-い

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    寸 (sun)

  • Related Keywords

    respect noble precious admirable revered sacred honor esteem admiration appreciation deference dignified dignity exalted grand homage majestic prestige reverence

Sentences including 尊

  • He wanted to be respected by the students.

  • Mary is respected by everyone.

  • We look up to him.

  • He wanted to be respected by everybody.

  • He is respected by everyone.

  • Everybody looks up to him.

  • He is respected by everybody.

  • He is looked up to by all as their leader.

  • He is looked up to as a leader.

  • I don't want to respect a man like him.

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