Character · Mind and speech
情
なさけ nasakeじょう jō
feeling, emotion
Composition
Origin
The heart 忄 with 青 as phonetic: the stirrings of the heart, feeling.
In the thoughts
- 情けnasakekindness
Proverbs carrying this character
- 038 情けは人のためならず Kindness is never wasted.
- 053 旅は道連れ世は情け On a journey, a companion; in life, kindness.
- 294 智に働けば角が立つ。情に棹させば流される。意地を通せば窮屈だ。 Act on reason, and you grow sharp-cornered. Pole along feeling, and you are swept away. Force your will, and you are cramped. Decidedly, the human world is hard to live in.