N2671/1725

観かん念ねん

nounnoun (generic)noun or participle taking the aux. verb するtransitive verbBuddhism

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かんねん

Meanings

idea, notion, concept, conception
sense (e.g. of duty)
resignation (to one's fate), acceptance, preparedness
observation and contemplation, meditation

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Example sentences

彼女かのじょは時間じかんの観念かんねんがまったくない。

She has absolutely no sense of time.

固定観念こていかんねんにとらわれていては新あたらしいアイデアは生うまれない。

You cannot come up with new ideas if you are trapped by fixed notions.

もう観念かんねんして全すべてを正直しょうじきに話はなすしかない。

There is nothing left to do but accept the situation and tell the truth about everything.

道徳的どうとくてきな観念かんねんは文化ぶんかや時代じだいによって大おおきく異ことなる。

Moral concepts vary greatly depending on culture and era.

敵てきに囲かこまれた将軍しょうぐんは観念かんねんし、ついに降伏こうふくを宣言せんげんした。

Surrounded by enemies, the general resigned himself to his fate and finally declared surrender.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)