Kanji1 / 10
称 kanji
appellation, praise, admire, name, title, fame
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ショウ
Kun readings
たたえるとなえるあげるかなうはかりはかるほめる
Variant forms
稱穪Words with 称
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —偽称assuming a false name
- —旧称old name; former title
- —謙称self-deprecating term; humble way of referring to oneself, one's abilities, one's possessions, etc.
- —古称old name; former name
- —誇称boasting; exaggeration
- —人称person
- —相称symmetry
- —総称general term; generic name
- —俗称common name; popular name; secular name (of a Buddhist monk)
- —他称third person
- —卑称disparaging form of address; derogatory name; deprecatory word; deprecating language
- —併称classifying together
- —別称another name; synonym; alias; pseudonym
- —僭称pretension; assumption (of a title)
- —称揚praise; admiration; exalting; extolling
- —称呼appellation; designation; epithet; title; name; calling out (a name); calling (for)
- —称名intoning the name of the Buddha; chanting the name of the Buddha
- —族称hereditary social class (under system in use 1869-1947)
- —推称admiration; praise
- —美称eulogistic name; poetic name; euphemism