漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
感: emotion, feeling
Also: sensation
JLPT N313 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- 咸(sound)
- 心heart(meaning)
心 carries the meaning · 咸 gives the sound
13 strokes
Bronze · Warring States Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 感じるかんじるfeel, sense
- 感動するかんどうするbe deeply moved
- 感謝するかんしゃするthank
- 感心するかんしんするbe impressed
- 共感するきょうかんするsympathize
- 感覚かんかくsense, sensation
- 感情かんじょうfeeling, emotion
- 感想かんそうimpression, thought, sentiments
- 責任感せきにんかんsense of responsibility
- 第六感だいろっかんsixth sense
- 敏感なびんかんなsensitive
- 鈍感などんかんなthick skinned, insensitive
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)咸 (sound) + 心 heart (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 感 (rev. 92161263), 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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side感 emotion · 心
vs減 dwindle · 氵In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · gǎn
Same form: 感 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 感 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 感 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gǎn 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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