See -san on Wiktionary
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Download raw JSONL data for -san meaning in All languages combined (6.4kB)
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"msg": "-san/English/suffix: 'word' should be a non-empty string (it is a mandatory field): {\"code\": \"cmn\", \"lang\": \"Chinese Mandarin\", \"note\": \"桑 (-sāng) (rare, usually translated with honorific titles as in English - Mr, Mrs, Miss)\", \"sense\": \"Japanese honorific ending\"}: {\"etymology_templates\": [{\"args\": {\"1\": \"en\", \"2\": \"ja\", \"3\": \"-\"}, \"expansion\": \"Japanese\", \"name\": \"bor\"}, {\"args\": {\"1\": \"さん\"}, \"expansion\": \"さん (san)\", \"name\": \"ja-r\"}], \"etymology_text\": \"From Japanese さん (san).\", \"head_templates\": [{\"args\": {\"1\": \"en\", \"2\": \"suffix\", \"cat2\": \"\", \"cat3\": \"\", \"head\": \"\", \"id\": \"\"}, \"expansion\": \"-san\", \"name\": \"head\"}, {\"args\": {}, \"expansion\": \"-san\", \"name\": \"en-suffix\"}], \"lang\": \"English\", \"lang_code\": \"en\", \"pos\": \"suffix\", \"related\": [{\"word\": \"Japayuki-san\"}, {\"word\": \"karayuki-san\"}, {\"word\": \"mama-san\"}, {\"word\": \"onee-san\"}], \"senses\": [{\"categories\": [\"English entries with incorrect language header\", \"English lemmas\", \"English suffixes\", \"English terms borrowed from Japanese\", \"English terms derived from Japanese\", \"Entries with translation boxes\", \"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters\", \"Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations\", \"Pages with 5 entries\", \"Pages with entries\", \"Terms with French translations\", \"Terms with Japanese translations\", \"Terms with Korean translations\", \"Terms with Mandarin translations\", \"Terms with Russian translations\"], \"examples\": [{\"text\": \"August 1, 1983, Time\\nTanaka-San’s Decline and Rise\"}, {\"text\": \"December 16, 2008 , Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122938932478509075.html\\nBarack Obama-san\"}, {\"text\": \"January 31, 2009, WalletPop, https://web.archive.org/web/20090512161949/http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/01/31/obama-san-presidents-book-of-speeches-is-a-huge-hit-in-japan\\nObama-san! President's book of speeches is a huge hit in Japan\"}], \"glosses\": [\"Honorific ending used to indicate a person is Japanese or talking with Japanese, or treated like Japanese.\"], \"links\": [[\"Honorific\", \"honorific\"]], \"tags\": [\"morpheme\"]}], \"translations\": [{\"code\": \"cmn\", \"lang\": \"Chinese Mandarin\", \"note\": \"桑 (-sāng) (rare, usually translated with honorific titles as in English - Mr, Mrs, Miss)\", \"sense\": \"Japanese honorific ending\"}, {\"code\": \"fr\", \"lang\": \"French\", \"sense\": \"Japanese honorific ending\", \"word\": \"-san\"}, {\"code\": \"ja\", \"lang\": \"Japanese\", \"roman\": \"-san\", \"sense\": \"Japanese honorific ending\", \"word\": \"さん\"}, {\"code\": \"ko\", \"lang\": \"Korean\", \"roman\": \"sang\", \"sense\": \"Japanese honorific ending\", \"word\": \"상\"}, {\"code\": \"ru\", \"lang\": \"Russian\", \"roman\": \"-san\", \"sense\": \"Japanese honorific ending\", \"tags\": [\"feminine\", \"masculine\"], \"word\": \"-сан\"}], \"word\": \"-san\"}",
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