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Kanji Detail for 情 - "emotion, love"

情

  • Meaning

    情 means "emotion, love." Also associated with truth.

    1. Emotion - Feelings of the heart; sentiment.

    2. Love - Romantic affection; passion.

    3. Truth - The actual state; reality.

    4. Circumstance - A situation; conditions.

    5. Compassion - Sympathy; kindness toward others.

  • Words using 情

    • 事情 じじょう Listen circumstances; conditions; situation
    • 情報 じょうほう Listen information; news; report
    • 表情 ひょうじょう Listen facial expression; countenance; look
    • 実情 じつじょう Listen real condition; actual circumstances; actual state of affairs
    • 感情 かんじょう Listen emotion; feeling; feelings
    • 苦情 くじょう Listen complaint; troubles; objection
    • 情熱 じょうねつ Listen passion; enthusiasm; zeal
    • 愛情 あいじょう Listen love; affection

  • Four-character idioms with 情

    • 情状酌量 じょうじょうしゃくりょう Listen taking the extenuating circumstances into consideration
    • 世態人情 せたいにんじょう Listen (contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world
    • 冷酷無情 れいこくむじょう Listen cruel and heartless; merciless; implacable
    • 多情仏心 たじょうぶっしん Listen fickle but kind-hearted
    • 多情多恨 たじょうたこん Listen sensibility; (having) many worries and regrets
    • 多情多感 たじょうたかん Listen sentimental; being full of emotions; having tender sensibilities

  • Origin of 情

    The heart radical 忄 beside 青, which lends the reading jō and its own sense of freshness: feeling as it rises, still green, in the heart.

    How to remember it: A heart 忄 turning green 青 like spring — feeling budding before words: emotion.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: emotion, love
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read こころ, じょう, じょうじ, せい)
    • Also carries these associations: truth

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 情

    Given names 情(こころ)Listen

    Surnames 情(じょう)Listen 情(じょうじ)Listen 情(せい)Listen 情(ひょんじょん)Listen 情(まこと)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    feelings; emotion; passion; sympathy; circumstances; facts

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    feeling, sentiment, emotion

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    emotion, feeling, sentiment

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    What nature manifests externally. Joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, and desire are the seven emotions. See (Book of Rites). | Human feelings. What common psychology shares. Mostly formed by customs and habits. Such as being different from the norm being called 不近人情. All expressions like 情理 have this meaning. | Reality. Such as reputation exceeding reality being 聲聞過情. See (Mencius). Also, the facts of a crime are called 情. Such as "learning the truth through investigation." Truth or falsity is called 情偽. | Mutual affection. Such as 多情, 情重. All that has mutual relations is called 有情. Such as 聯絡有情. | Intention. Stating one's intention is 陳情.

  • Onyomi

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    joh(ジョウ) ジョウ

    sei(セイ) セイ

  • Kunyomi

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    nasa.ke(なさ-け) なさ-け

  • Strokes

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    11 strokes

  • Radical

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    心 忄 (kokoro・shitagokoro・risshimben)

  • Related Keywords

    emotion love truth circumstance compassion empathy honesty romance taste feeling sentiment affection care concern devotion fondness heart kindness mercy mood passion pity sensitivity sympathy tenderness

Sentences including 情

  • She wanted to have her father's love to herself.

  • He put this information to good use.

  • A child needs love.

  • Is world peace made possible by friendship?

  • She had her parents' love to herself.

  • She takes every circumstance into account.

  • They did not think anything of the news.

  • He wants affection.

  • This information checks out all right.

  • Some of the information is very important.

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