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First opened Friday, April 10, 2009

叔父さん

おじさん

Pitch accent: We don't have the data for this section. No accent list gives this spelling and reading, or the two we check against disagree.

(hon.) middle-aged gentleman, uncle

JLPT N2noun (common) (futsuumeishi)honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) languagefamiliar languageCompound

叔父さん is 叔父 (oji) plus さん (san).

Taken apart

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Written with 叔父

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

  • “Compound of 叔父(おじ) (oji) + さん (san).”

Source: Wiktionary: 叔父さん (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

Compound
Two or more words or stems joined into one.

Also read おじさん

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 叔父さんThis word

    (hon.) middle-aged gentleman, uncle

    No pitch accent shown

  • 小父さん

    (hon.) middle-aged gentleman, uncle

    No pitch accent shown

  • 伯父さん

    uncle, middle-aged man

    No pitch accent shown

Also opened on April 10

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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