Japanese Can We Tell that Aoi Doesn't Speak it?

I have a question for those who are waymore knowledgable about this language than I am.

Ahem..

What is the difference between "chan" and "kun"?

~ Lady Aoi

 

'-chan' is used for children, girls and pets, it's a very familiar way to address someone.. I've heard a girl call her boyfriend '-chan' before...

'-kun' is a familiar way to refer to guys/boys, girls will use this one on guys a lot, guy-type friends will use it if they use a name suffix at all

-UK
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InuYasha, expand please on these! maybe I should have added the other suffixes...

 

Please nobody Crucify me if Im wrong!

The one difference I know of is gender. Chan for girls and Kun for boys. I think thats it. I'm not that good with explanations sorry. ^ ^

 

Kun can be used for females as well, think Excel

Of course, that is a little more rare

 

Thanks guys ^_^. I was confused because I once did hear a girl addressed as -kun. Any rules for when that happens and why?

~ Lady Aoi

 

there's no real rules.. aside from social type things... but that's an entirely different realm.

-UK

 

BakaMattsu, isn't your avvy a bunny?! Lol.

 

-chan is mostly used for females, family members, or kids a good bit younger than you.
-kun is used for male freinds, it's female equivalent is -ko but that's hardly ever used.
There are exceptions, sometimes -kun is used for girls or -chan for guys in a kind of sarcastic way as a slag, or sometimes as a term of endearment. You wouldn't genraly use either in a formal setting, you'd use the person's family name and -san, -sama, -sensei, -sempai, or whatever. Japanese etequite is very complex.

 

^_^; It's a Ponta-kun! ^_^ I dunno why they're called '-kun', though, because I've never actually seen J to X...but...

Food for thought. ^^

 

"chan" will have u glared at, if the person u are refering too is short

 

What boggles me is why the mother Ponta-kun is still called Ponta-kun. And they say the name sounds cute. I don't know...