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All other titles, used when addressing someone, have a kanji character. Was/Is
there a kanji term for _-san_?
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kanji honorifics
Is there a kanji term for "-san" when used to address someone?
The pronunciation さん is derived from [様]{さま}. I guess it should never be
written using the kanji.
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Totally not the question you wanted, but a piece of trivia nonetheless: while
there is no kanji for さん, there is a hànzì, and it's 桑: the Chinese Internet
users needed to render the non-kanjified Japanese honorifics phonetically, so
you'll find the versions for many others as well. (醬 is ちゃん).

  * It actually has a precedence, as originally さん came to Taiwan during the Japanese power and got actively borrowed to Taiwanese Min Nan (Hokkien): and it was there that 桑 was taken as a phonetic. Example, 歐巴桑 おばあさん. Strictly saying, 桑 is used as a phonetic for any occurrence of [saŋ].

It wouldn't work in Japanese, as the on-reading is now そう.
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