感慨
gǎnkài · HSK 7
sigh with emotion
😮💨 感 = feel + 慨 = lament; feeling-lament = sigh with emotion
感 (gǎn) means feel/sense; 慨 (kǎi) means lament or indignant sigh. Together: a heartfelt sigh stirred by reflection or nostalgia. The 忄 radical in both halves marks them as heart-related feelings.
感 — heart 心 + 咸 (xián, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 心 at the bottom carries the meaning of feeling or emotion, while 咸 supplies the sound. Together 感 conveys being moved in the heart, hence 'to feel,' 'sense,' or 'be affected by' something.