Kanji1 / 8
念 kanji
wish, sense, idea, thought, feeling, desire, attention
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ネン
Kun readings
NoneWords with 念
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —念話telepathic communication
- —正念right mindfulness; true faith (in rebirth in the promised land)
- —念者careful and thorough person; older male in an homosexual relationship
- —念友male homosexual relations; homosexual male partner
- —念人assistant in a competition (e.g. cockfight, archery, poetry contest); older male in an homosexual relationship
- —愛念affection; strong feeling of love
- —絶念giving up; abandoning (hope, plans)
- —念波telepathy; thought waves
- —記念館museum (esp. in memory of a person or event); memorial hall
- —念じるto wish (for); to pray (for); to hope (for); to pray silently; to recite (Buddha's name, sutras, etc.) in one's mind; to chant (a silent prayer)
- —念ずるto wish (for); to pray (for); to hope (for); to pray silently; to recite (Buddha's name, sutras, etc.) in one's mind; to chant (a silent prayer)
- —念押しreminder
- —念入れcare; scrupulousness; conscientiousness
- —朴念仁quiet unsociable person; obstinate person; blockhead
- —空念仏empty words
- —類概念generic concept; genus
- —残念賞consolation prize
- —観念的conceptual; ideational; notional; theoretical; academic
- —観念論idealism
- —概念的general; conceptual