Kanji1 / 13
意 kanji
idea, mind, heart, taste, thought, desire, care, liking
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
イ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 意
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —意味があるto have meaning; to be meaningful
- —意味がないuseless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point
- —有意性検定test of significance; significance test
- —意識が高いhighly conscious; highly aware; well-versed; highly knowledgable
- —意識高い系person who is overly conscious about appearing interesting (esp. online)
- —意に反するgoing against one's will; contrary to one's intentions; going against one's desire; going contrary to one's wishes
- —意思が強いdetermined; strong-willed
- —自己の意思one's own volition
- —言外の意味subtext; implication; connotation; implicit meaning; between the lines
- —意識が戻るto recover consciousness; to come to
- —好意を持つto feel goodwill (towards); to wish someone well; to have a strong liking (for); to be emotionally involved
- —意表に出るto take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected
- —いい意味でin a positive sense of the word; in the best sense of the word; in a good way
- —生意気盛りyoung and cheeky; brash; sassy
- —意を尽くすto fully express one's feelings; to say everything that is on one's mind
- —政治的意思political will
- —意識が低いhaving a poor sense of something; ignorant; benighted; not very conscious
- —熊出没注意Beware of Bears; watch out for bears
- —無意志動詞non-volitional verb
- —当事者意識sense of involvement (e.g. in a movement); consciousness of being a participant