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心 kanji
heart, mind, spirit, heart radical (no. 61)
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
シン
Kun readings
こころ-ごころ
Variant forms
忄Words with 心
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —心胆を寒からしめるto make a person's blood run cold
- —国立心肺血液研究所National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- —鹿児島純心女子大学Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University
- —会心の笑みを浮かべるto smile a smile of satisfaction
- —心臓に毛が生えているto be shameless; to have a lot of nerve; to have nerves of steel; to have hair on one's heart
- —日本催眠医学心理学会Japanese Society of Hypnosis
- —外面如菩薩内心如夜叉looking gentle and beautiful like a bodhisattva on the outside but, being wicked and frightening like a demon on the inside
- —外面似菩薩内心如夜叉looking gentle and beautiful like a bodhisattva on the outside but, being wicked and frightening like a demon on the inside
- —心的外傷後ストレス障害post-traumatic stress disorder; PTSD
- —用心に越したことはないyou can never be too careful; you can't be too cautious; better safe than sorry
- —心神喪失者等医療観察法Act on Medical Care and Treatment for Persons Who Have Caused Serious Cases Under the Condition of Insanity
- —トランスパーソナル心理学transpersonal psychology
- —信心過ぎて極楽を通り越すfaith is best in moderation; worship too hard and you will pass right through paradise
- —ノートルダム清心女子大学Notre Dame Seishin University
- —用心するに越したことはないyou can never be too careful; you can't be too cautious; better safe than sorry
- —心頭滅却すれば火もまた涼しif you clear your mind of all worldly thoughts, even fire will feel cool
- —心頭を滅却すれば火もまた涼しif you clear your mind of all worldly thoughts, even fire will feel cool
- —山中の賊を破るは易く心中の賊を破るは難しit's hard to discipline one's mind; defeating the bandits in the mountains is easy; defeating the bandit in one's heart is hard
- —違心treachery; treacherous designs
- —純心pure; innocent; naive; unspoilt; pure-hearted; ingenuous