君

Glyph origin
. In the oracle bones and early Zhou bronze inscriptions, was often interchanged with.  suggests that represents commands, but it may simply be decorative.

Etymology
. Here are several possibilities:
 * Related to 🇨🇬, ;
 * Related to and  and cognate with 🇨🇬 ;
 * The *k- prefixed derivative of ; however, this is phonologically problematic.

The ACG sense is an, which is in turn from.

Definitions

 * 1) sovereign; monarch; ruler; chief; prince; lord
 * 2)   lord
 * 3)  you; your
 * 4) to dominate; to reign
 * 5)  -kun
 * : Jun
 * 1)  -kun
 * : Jun
 * : Jun
 * : Jun

Kanji

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

Compounds

 * : vicinity of a lord
 * : vicinity of a lord
 * : vicinity of a lord
 * : vicinity of a lord

Etymology 1
→ * →

From. Possibly a borrowing from the Sillan word for king, written with the character 今 (kum). The same morpheme survives in the second syllable of the Modern Korean word.

Noun

 * 1) a ruler of a country
 * 2) an emperor
 * 3) a lord
 * 4) a master
 * 5) a nobleman or other person of high(er) rank
 * 6)  a prostitute
 * 7)  one of the hereditary titles bestowed to local chiefs in ancient Japan
 * 1) a nobleman or other person of high(er) rank
 * 2)  a prostitute
 * 3)  one of the hereditary titles bestowed to local chiefs in ancient Japan

Pronoun

 * 1)  second-person personal pronoun: you
 * 2) * 1086, ' (book 12, poem 669; also ', poem 50)
 * 3) (after a  or  particle) term of respect to another person
 * 1) (after a  or  particle) term of respect to another person
 * 1) (after a  or  particle) term of respect to another person
 * 1) (after a  or  particle) term of respect to another person
 * 1) (after a  or  particle) term of respect to another person
 * 1) (after a  or  particle) term of respect to another person

Usage notes

 * When used in lyrics and poetry, this word is considered less colloquial and more poetic than in spoken language.

Suffix

 * 1) indicates respect

Usage notes

 * 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 and.
 * Used of nobles. Attaches to close family relationship nouns such as, ,.

Etymology 3
From.

Suffix

 * 1) suffix for boys' names
 * 2) indicates respect
 * 3) indicates familiarity
 * 1) indicates familiarity

Usage notes
-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.

Etymology 4
→

Shift from older.

Pronoun

 * 1) second person personal pronoun: you
 * 2) * (Fukiage, ge)
 * "ja"

- 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.


 * 1) * (Kurabiraki, jō)
 * "ja"

- 「[...] 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」


 * 1) * (Kuniyuzuri, jō)
 * "ja"

- 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. [...]」」

Etymology
From.

Han character

 * 1) sovereign, monarch, ruler, chief, prince