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
- —懐抱bearing in mind (a thought, feeling, etc.); embrace; hug; holding in one's arms; bosom; (breast) pocket
- —懐剣dagger
- —胸懐heart; feelings
- —感懐impression
- —素懐a cherished hope
- —所懐one's opinion
- —坦懐level emotion; frankness
- —懐石kaiseki; sophisticated traditional Japanese cuisine brought in courses; simple meal eaten before tea is served
- —鄙懐one's own thought; one's own idea
- —懐孕pregnancy; conception
- —懐中物purse; handbag; pocketbook
- —懐中鏡pocket mirror
- —懐旧談reminiscences; talking about old times
- —懐炉灰fuel source for a (pocket) body warmer
- —懐郷病homesickness
- —懐疑心skepticism; scepticism; doubt
- —懐疑論skepticism; scepticism
- —懐疑派the skeptics; the sceptics
- —懐柔策measure to win someone over to one's side
- —茶懐石simple meal eaten before tea is served