感ずる

かんずる · kanzuru · JLPT N2 · verb-ichidan

to feel

🫀 感 = 心 (heart) + 咸 (all together): feel it with your whole heart

Sound-alike: kan sounds like 'can', so 'I can feel it.' The heart radical 心 marks the feeling; 咸 adds the sense of taking in everything at once.

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.

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