Kanji1 / 16
懐 kanji
feelings, heart, yearn, miss someone, become attached to, bosom, breast, pocket
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
カイエ
Kun readings
ふところなつかしいなつかしむなつくなつけるなずけるいだくおもう
Variant forms
懷褱Words with 懐
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —懐疑Populardoubt; skepticism; scepticism; disbelief
- —懐柔Popularwinning over; placation; gentle persuasion
- —述懐Popularspeaking about (one's thoughts, memories, etc.); relating (one's feelings, reminiscences, etc.); recollection; reminiscence
- —懐中電灯Popular(electric) torch; flashlight
- —雅懐aesthetic sentiment
- —懐旧reminiscence; nostalgia; thinking fondly of the past; recalling the old days
- —懐古reminiscence; nostalgia; thinking fondly of the past; recalling the old days
- —懐胎conception; becoming pregnant; pregnancy
- —懐中one's pocket
- —懐妊pregnancy; conception
- —懐炉pocket heater; hand warmer; heater pack
- —久懐long-cherished hope
- —旧懐love of antiquity
- —抱懐harboring; harbouring; cherishing; entertaining
- —欣懐thinking happily of
- —本懐one's long-cherished desire
- —懐紙paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony); paper used for writing tanka
- —懐郷nostalgia; homesickness; longing for home
- —襟懐(one's) inner thoughts; feelings
- —追懐recollection; remembrance; reminiscence