貴方

See also: 贵方

Chinese

		expensive; noble; your (name) expensive; noble; your (name); precious	square; quadrilateral; place square; quadrilateral; place; region; direction; side; method; way; prescription; power; upright; just
trad. (貴方)		貴	方
simp. (贵方)		贵	方

貴方

For pronunciation and definitions of 貴方 – see the following entry.

[pronoun] 貴方, 貴女, 貴男: you (second-person pronoun)

[pronoun] 貴方: (women's speech) dear, darling, sweetheart (term used by a wife to address her husband)

[pronoun] 貴方, 彼方: (uncommon) that person (far from both speaker and listener)

Alternative spellings
貴女, 貴男, 彼方

(This term, 貴方, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

/kipau/ → /kifau/ → /kifɔː/ → /kihoː/

From Middle Chinese 貴方 (MC kjw+jH pjang, “noble, superior + side, place, direction”).

貴(き)方(ほう) • (kihō) ^{←きはう (kifau)^?}

(respectful) your house, your residence
(respectful, men's speech) you (used to address someone of equal social footing)

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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