<P> When translating honorific suffixes into English, separate pronouns or adjectives must be used in order to convey characteristics to the person they are referencing as well . While some honorifics such as "- san" are very frequently used due to their gender neutrality and very simple definition of polite unfamiliarity, other honorifics such as "- chan" or "- kun" are more specific as to the context in which they must be used as well as the implications they give off when attached to a person's name . These implications can only be translated into English using either adjectives or adjective word phrases . </P> <P> San (さん) (sometimes pronounced han (は ん) in Kansai dialect) is the most commonplace honorific and is a title of respect typically used between equals of any age . Although the closest analog in English are the honorifics "Mr .", "Miss", "Ms .", or "Mrs .", - san is almost universally added to a person's name; "- san" can be used in formal and informal contexts and for any gender . Because it is the most common honorific, it is also the most often used to convert common nouns into proper ones, as seen below . </P> <P> San may be used in combination with workplace nouns, so a bookseller might be addressed or referred to as honya - san ("bookstore" + san) and a butcher as nikuya - san ("butcher's shop" + san). </P> <P> San is sometimes used with company names . For example, the offices or shop of a company called Kojima Denki might be referred to as "Kojima Denki - san" by another nearby company . This may be seen on small maps often used in phone books and business cards in Japan, where the names of surrounding companies are written using san . </P>

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