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
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 意
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —便意urge to defecate (or urinate); call of nature
- —本意real intention; true motive; true will; original intention; original purpose; original hope
- —有意significant; meaningful; intentional; volitional
- —余意implied meaning
- —来意purpose of a visit
- —留意heeding; paying attention; bearing in mind
- —恣意arbitrariness; self-will; whim
- —主意central meaning; principal meaning; main idea; prioritizing of will (over reason or emotion); one's lord's will; one's master's intention
- —着意caution; conception; idea
- —達意lucidity; intelligibility; perspicuity
- —無意unintentionality; lack of will
- —発意idea; suggestion; plan
- —衆意public opinion
- —筆意brushwork; writing
- —宿意longstanding opinion; old grudge
- —題意meaning of a title (of a book, poem, etc.); point of a question (on an exam, etc.)
- —害意malice; malicious intent; intent to kill
- —底意true intention; underlying motive
- —如意going according to one's wishes; ceremonial sceptre used by monks when reciting sutras (scepter)
- —神意divine will