emotion, feeling, sensation
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
え、本当に?僕は何も感じなかったよ。
E, hontou ni? Boku wa nani mo kanjinakatta yo.
Really? I didn't feel a thing.
こうして、感謝の食事は、二人の新しい習慣の言い訳になったのでした。
Koushite, kansha no shokuji wa, futari no atarashii shuukan no iiwake ni natta no deshita.
And so, the thank-you dinner became an excuse for a new habit of theirs.
二人はそこで笑いながら、罪悪感なしにポテトを食べました——その時だけ。
Futari wa soko de warainagara, zaiakukan nashi ni poteto o tabemashita — sono toki dake.
The two of them sat there, laughing, eating fries without any guilt — just this once.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0