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First opened Saturday, August 21, 2010

お礼

おれい

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expression of gratitude; thanking; gift of appreciation; bow

JLPT N4Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)polite (teineigo) language漢語 · Sino-JapaneseCompoundDerivation

Orei is 御 (o-, honorific prefix) plus 礼 (rei, “bow”).

Taken apart

  1. お

    お

    honorific prefix

  2. 礼

    れい

    bow

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Written with 礼

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What Wiktionary says

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  • “From 御(お) (o-, honorific prefix) + 礼(れい) (rei, “bow”).”

Source: Wiktionary: お礼 (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

漢語 Sino-Japanese
Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
Compound
Two or more words or stems joined into one.
Derivation
A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.

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