the honorific Chan

It is an informal version of san used to address children and female family. It may also be used towards animals, lovers, intimate friends, and people whom one has known since childhood. Chan continues to be used as a term of endearment, especially for girls into adulthood. Parents will probably always call their daughters chan and their sons kun(see post "the honorific -kun") , though chan can be used towards boys just as easily

Chan is a feminine word of choose like that it is used mainly by, or towards, females. Its usage is similar to using "dear" when addressing someone in English. Males mostly would not use chan when addressing other males


Although traditionally honorifics are not applied to yourself some young women adopt the affectation of referring to themselves in the third person using chan, a mode of speech normally only found amongst small children. For example (and just a example im a boy), my named is Wiley i would call myself Wiley-chan rather than using a first person pronoun.