漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
心: heart, mind
Also: spirit, heart radical (no. 61)
JLPT N44 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
4 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 心理学しんりがくpsychology
- 心臓病しんぞうびょうheart disease
- 心臓まひしんぞうまひheart attack
- 中心ちゅうしんcenter
- 好奇心こうきしんcuriosity
- 肝心なかんじんなessential
- 心配するしんぱいするworry
- 安心するあんしんするbe relieved
- 感心するかんしんするadmire [v.i.]
- 決心するけっしんするresolve to do something
こころkokoro · kun'yomi · on its own
- 心こころheart, spirit
-ごころ-gokoro · kun'yomi
- 親心おやごころparental love
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A heart, now highly stylized.
Source: Wiktionary, 心 (rev. 93404553), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The ancient character once looked like a beating heart with its arteries. Today, 心 represents the very center of who we are—the place where our feelings bloom, our thoughts grow, and our spirit resides.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xīn
Same form: 心 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 心 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 心 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xīn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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