情緒
じょうちょ · joucho · JLPT N1 · noun
emotion
🧵 情 (feeling) + 緒 (thread, cord): emotions are feelings strung together like threads
緒 originally meant the end or fiber of a thread. Feeling plus thread gives 情緒, the emotional thread that runs through your mood.
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.
じょうしょ · jousho · JLPT N1 · noun
emotion
🧵 情 (feeling) + 緒 (thread, mood) = emotion as feelings strung together
緒 originally meant the end of a thread or cord, and later came to mean a mood or the start of something. Together, 情緒 names the mood that feelings string together.
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.