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Paul11 (Offline)
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09-22-2008, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by SSJup81 View Post
Whee, even I can answer this.

Chan and Kun are casual, but, chan is usually used for girls and kun for boys. You can use chan with boys and kun with girls, but generally, it's the way I mentioned. They're also used towards boys and girls who are younger than you, but as I said earlier, both of these honorifics are casual. For example, that "Taka-chan" is probably used by someone who is a friend of this "Taka-chan".
You can use chan for boys, but only for close friends and family or little kids. But I would never use kun for girls, have never heard it used for girls and was told it was only for boys.
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