gratitude - What is the Japanese translation? Japanese translators help technical Japanese translators with the translation of gratitude

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232 months ago

Atri Ishaya (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	English > Japanese
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	gratitude
Context:	great thankfulness
Keywords:	-

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232 months ago

wrote:

Kansha = Š´ŽÓ

My comment:

Just to clarify, both the previous respondents agreed on the best answer, but one wrote it in Romaji ('English' letters) and the other in Kanji. To see the Kanji you'll need to change the page encoding to Shift-JIS using e.g. your browser's View -> Encoding -> Japanese menu, although even this might not work if you don't have the fonts installed. To avoid changing encoding etc. you could try the link below, which also demonstrates how it is the correct answer. (Don't worry if some of the hits appear to be Chinese: the Kanji are the same in both languages.)

My references:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%E6%84%9F%E8%AC%9D%7Ckansha+gratitude

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232 months ago

wrote:

Š´ŽÓ

My comment:

One should pay attention to the difference between spoken and written Japanese. In writing formally, the expression of gratitude quite often takes the form of ŽÓˆÓ(feeling of gratitude). [Caution!] ŽÓˆÓhas two meeningsA(1)feeling of gratitude and (2)feeling of apology. .

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232 months ago

wrote:

kansha

My comment:

In Japan being a group orientated society it is very important to show gratitude to another person. The level of (accepted) gratitude depends on the social status of both the speaker and the one spoken to.

The translation of 'gratitude' is 'kansha' (I do not know if you can read Japanese so I write it in Western writing). 'Kansha' is a literal translation of the word 'gratitude'.

But perhaps you are not looking for a literal translation but for a more contextual one. In that case the words to be used depend, like I mentioned earlier on the social status of both the speaker and the one spoken to.

If tthe one showing gratitude is of a higher status than the one given gratitude to then a simple 'arrigatou' (thank you) or 'doumo' (lit. 'very' but often used as a noun)can be enough.

If the one showing gratitude is equal or lower than the one who recieves it the phrase 'doumo arrigatou gozaimashita' (thank you very much) is used (in an actual conversation this is always followed by bowing with the upper body to highten the politeness level).

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