君・公|きみkimi[0]heiban (flat)

1. pronounyou; buddy; palsometimes considered male language; referring to someone of equal or lower status
   宿題しゅくだいを忘わすれるなんて君きみは不注意ふちゅういだった。↗

   It was careless of you to forget your homework.
2. nounmonarch; ruler; sovereign; (one's) masterorig. meaning
3. pronounhe; she

• Related主あるじWrittenWritten word for the head of a household or a shop's proprietor; matches the 'ruler/master' side of 「君」, which today is mostly the pronoun 'you'.
• Related主人しゅじんNeutralSame word as above; written 「主人」 and read 「あるじ」 it keeps that meaning, while 「しゅじん」 is a separate, common everyday word.
• Related雇い主やといぬしNeutralModern word for an employer, someone who hires others; no connection to 「君」 as a form of address.
• Related主君しゅくんWrittenHistorical term for the lord that retainers serve; unrelated to the second-person 「君」.
• Related殿とのWrittenArchaic word for a feudal lord or daimyo; today mostly met in period dramas as 「殿」.
• Related主公しゅこうWrittenWritten-style word for one's lord or the protagonist of a story; rarely used today.
• Antonym私わたしNeutralFirst-person 'I'; the counterpart of the second-person 「君」.
• Antonym妾わらわWrittenArchaic first-person pronoun used by women; the counterpart of 「君」.
• AntonymわしCasualColloquial first-person pronoun of elderly men or dialects; the counterpart of 「君」.

Use 「君」 for 'you' toward a peer or someone junior. For the old 'lord/master' sense choose 「主」/「主人」 (あるじ), 「主君」 or 「殿」; 「主公」 is rare today, and 「雇い主」 just means employer. First person is 「私」, colloquially 「わし」, archaically 「妾」 for women.

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1. （きみ）同輩どうはい又または目下めしたの者ものに対たいする二に人称にんしょう。主おもに男性だんせいが会話かいわにおいて用もちいる。「あなた」よりぞんざいだが、「おまえ」より丁寧ていねい。
2. 君主くんしゅ。
3. 夫おっと。