御用
Meanings
Noun
1. (your) business; (your) concern; (your) need (Honorific)
2. (customer's) order (Honorific)
3. official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.)
4. arrest; capture
Prenominal
5. subservient to an authority (esp. the government); pro-government
Other spellings
ご用
Kanji used
Pitch accent
ごよう
Used in vocabulary
御用達
purveyor (to the Imperial Household, etc.); company (or restaurant, place, etc.) that caters to or is popular with a specific clientele
Suffix
御用学者
scholar beholden to the government; self-serving academic; scholar who toadies up to government authorities
Noun
御用聞き
the rounds of tradesmen going door to door; route man; door-to-door tradesman; order taker; order-taking; thief taker; secret policeman
Noun
御用人
manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period)
Noun
Examples25
ご用
Please call me up if you want me.
御用
What shall I do for you?
誰か
Have you been waited on?
店主
"Are you being attended to?" asked the shopkeeper.
ルームサービス
Room service. May I help you?
君たち
Did any of you gentlemen wait on this man?