I’ve been looking around for some form of kanji for -chan and -tan but haven’t had any luck — A jp wiki referenced a Mandarin character, but I’m not entirely sure if that counts — so I’m starting to assume that there is none, considering that the words primarily refer to/are used by children.
Just in case, does anyone know if there are Kanji I may be missing?
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They do not, just like さん (-san). Ultimately they’re sound changes from -san, which itself is a sound change from -sama, so if you had to really force it I guess 様 has a vague association with it, but no one will *ever* see 様 and think -chan.
Kun can be written as 君 sometimes but I’ve never seen kanji used for san or chan before
In general, jisho.org will show you kanji even if they’re wildly outdated, so if there’s none on there, you don’t need to worry about it.
san is a derivative of sama. tan is primarly use by small children who cant yet pronounce tch in chan. Hence there is no kanji for both.