愛情
あいじょう · aijou · JLPT N3 · noun
affection
❤️ 愛情 = love 愛 + feeling 情: the feeling of love
愛 (ai) means love, and 情 (jou) means feeling or emotion, as in 感情 kanjou, emotion. Together they mean the feeling of love, so affection. Sound hook: ai-jou sounds like eye-Joe, as in Joe catching your eye.
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.