![]() ![]() That “ii” means “good.” So, literally it means good feeling. What you’ve heard is kimochi-ii, with that drawn out “ii” sound. ![]() This word is actually slightly different. How to put this delicately? If anyone has indulged in some “private time” Japanese media, they may have heard “kimochi” used in a rather, uh, emphatic way. This 气 character can be pronounced “ki” as well.īut, to top it off, because it’s a picture of breath, we get an incidental bit of semantic meaning as well. The phonetic component is 气, supposedly an abstraction of breath as visible on a cold day. What that means is that inside this little kanji there are hints to both is phonetic nature, as well as its meaning. 気 belongs to a category of characters known as phono-semantic compound characters. ![]() This character has a pretty interesting etymology. There are some other ways it has been written throughout history, but we’re going to stick to these two main versions today. This is actually a newer form of a far older character (more than two thousand years old!) that comes direct from China, 氣. The meaning of this word is all being held up in those two kanji characters. Then, we can write it with a mix of hiragana and kanji (Chinese characters) as 気持ち, or even as pure kanji just by dropping that last character to make 気持. ![]() These are straightforward, one-to-one connections between sound and syllable. Kimochi can be written a few ways in Japanese. ![]()
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