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ご高配

ごこうはい

your kind consideration

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Examples

  1. 平素は格別のご高配を賜り厚く御礼申し上げます。

    へいそはかくべつのごこうはいをたまわりあつくおれいもうしあげます。

    We thank you warmly for your continued special consideration.

  2. 今後とも変わらぬご高配をお願い申し上げます。

    こんごともかわらぬごこうはいをおねがいもうしあげます。

    We ask for your unchanging consideration in future as well.

  3. ご高配にあずかり感謝しております。

    ごこうはいにあずかりかんしゃしております。

    We are grateful to have received your consideration.

Common patterns

格別のご高配を賜る
to receive your special consideration
ご高配のほどお願い申し上げます
we ask for your kind consideration
ご高配にあずかる
to be favoured with your consideration

Memory tip

高 lifts the other side's 配慮 ('consideration') onto a pedestal, so the word can only describe what the addressee does for you. It travels with 賜る in the standard opening sentence of a business letter.

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