Mr.; Ms.; formal addressee suffix
A polite but stiff written suffix used in official documents, business letters, certificates, and similar address lines. In modern everyday correspondence, 様 is usually safer; 殿 can sound administrative, hierarchical, or addressed from an organization to an individual or subordinate.
The notice was addressed to “Mr. Taro Yamada.”
The certificate is printed with “Ms. Hanako Sato.”
Dear Mr. Tanaka Taro, please find the following notice.
殿 is a somewhat archaic honorific suffix used in formal letters and official address, while 卿 specifically evokes a title like 'Lord'.
殿 is a stiff, administrative address suffix often used top-down (organization to individual), while 様 is the safer, broadly polite suffix preferred in most modern letters and emails.
殿 is a more formal, old-fashioned honorific suffix, while どん is the familiar Kyushu-dialect suffix used the way さん is elsewhere.
stately mansion; lofty building
temporary shrine
you (archaic, familiar or derogatory)
toilet
roofed corridor connecting two buildings (traditional palatial architecture)
bathroom; bathing room · bathing; bathing attendant
alias for fox; euphemism for fox
joint enshrinement; shrine building for multiple deities
purification hall of a Shinto shrine
Standard kanji suffix written after a person's name, title, or office name in official or business correspondence.
The spelling uses 殿, a character associated with halls, residences, lords, and honorific address. As the suffix どの, it functions as a conventional written title; no detailed historical derivation is specified.
Shinto dance pavilion; kagura hall
sake brewery