honorific prefix; polite prefix; humble prefix
Usually attached before Sino-Japanese words with on-yomi readings, such as ご家族, ご連絡, and ご注文. It can show respect for someone else's things or actions, make speech polite, or appear in humble expressions for the speaker's own action, as in ご説明します.
See also: お
How is your family?
We will contact you tomorrow.
We have confirmed your order.
honorific suffix for a person
Attached after a noun referring to a person to make a respectful term. In modern use it is limited and is especially familiar in words such as 親御さん for someone else's parent or guardian.
A student's parent called.
The parent or guardian's consent is required.
Please check this document.
I will get in touch with you later.
Could you tell me your address?
purveyor to the Imperial Household; official supplier · popular with a specific clientele; favorite of; go-to for
(another's) parents
palace; court; mansion
three Tokugawa branch families; Gosanke · big three; top three
imperial palace; Kyoto Imperial Palace; residence of a shogun or high-ranking noble · emperor; ex-emperor; empress; imperial prince; shogun; minister
divine grace; blessing; answer to a prayer · benefit; help
elder sister; big sister
opportunism; double standards; expediency
personage; esteemed person
temple; monk's quarters · monk
meal (honorific) · Emperor's meal; meal of a noble · high-quality; premium (food/drink)
tedious talk; pretentious nonsense; long-winded speech
human sacrifice; victim
imperial tomb
imperial property
sunrise from a mountaintop; the rising sun (as a sacred sight)
to be · to come; to go; to be (somewhere) · to be (doing)
goshuin; temple/shrine seal stamp · letter bearing the shogun's scarlet seal
immediate vassal of the shogun (Kamakura and Muromachi periods) · low-ranking vassal of the shogun (Edo period)
dinner; evening meal
be; is
emperor's meal
(someone else's) elder brother; older brother
older lady
court lady; imperial consort
(another person's) younger sister