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
- —遠称distal pronoun (indicating distance from both speaker and listener)
- —近称proximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the speaker)
- —特称special name; special designation; particular
- —蔑称disparaging term; derogatory term; derogatory name
- —賤称depreciatory name
- —正称official name
- —全称(logical) universal
- —汎称lumping similar things together and giving the group a collective name; collective name; generic term
- —中称mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener)
- —称すto call; to name; to call oneself ...; to go by the name of ...; to purport (to be); to profess; to claim; to pretend; to feign; to praise; to applaud
- —冠称brand name; company name
- —口称chanting the invocation to Amida Buddha
- —誤称misnomer; misnaming; miscalling
- —戯称jocular name; jocular term; humorous nickname
- —単称layman's terms; simple name; uncomplicated term; singular
- —褒称praising; admiring; exalting
- —父称patronymic; patronym
- —追称posthumous name
- —訛称corruption (of a word or expression); corrupted form
- —一人称first person; self-reference term; term used to refer to oneself in the first person