友情
ゆうじょう · yuujou · JLPT N3 · noun
fellowship
🤝 友情 = friend (友) + feeling (情): the feeling between friends
友 (ゆう) means friend, as in 友人 (ゆうじん, friend). 情 (じょう) means feeling or emotion, as in 感情 (かんじょう). Put together, friend + feeling gives friendship.
情 — heart radical 忄 + 青 (qīng)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 忄 signals that the meaning involves feelings or inner states, while 青 supplies the sound 'qing'. Originally referring to genuine feelings or emotion arising from the heart, 情 expanded to cover sentiment, affection, and circumstances or situations more broadly.