How to say "dedication" in Japanese

• 奉納ほうのうCommon
  suru verb, transitive verb, no-adjectiveCovers dedication as a religious offering — presenting something to a god or shrine. The nuance is ceremonial, so it suits shrine rituals rather than commitment to work; for that other sense, use 献身.
  知事ちじは戦死せんしした兵士へいしたちに記念碑きねんひを奉納ほうのうした。↗

  The governor dedicated the memorial to the soldiers who died in the war.
• 献身けんしんCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbCovers dedication as wholehearted devotion and self-sacrificing commitment to a person, cause, or work. This is the everyday word for the abstract sense of 'dedication'; it does not refer to ritual offerings.
  仕事場しごとばの管理者かんりしゃは、正確せいかくさ、効率性こうりつせい、献身けんしんを期待きたいする。↗

  Office managers expect accuracy, efficiency, and dedication.

Use 奉納 for a dedication in the sense of ritually offering something to a deity or shrine, and 献身 for dedication as personal devotion and self-sacrificing commitment to a person, cause, or work.

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• 奉納ほうのうdedication
• 献身けんしんdevotion
• 奉献ほうけんdedication
• デディケーションdedication
• 献辞けんじdedication (e.g. at the front of a book)
• ため書きためがきdedication (e.g. in books)
• 献呈けんていpresentation