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心配
しんぱいする
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worry, concern
Shinpai can be analyzed as 心 (shin, “heart”) plus 配 (hai, “to concern oneself with”).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
心配するな。
Never mind!
心配しないで。
Don't worry.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From the native Japanese word 心(こころ)配(くば)り (kokorokubari). Can be analyzed as 心(しん) (shin, “heart”) + 配(はい) (hai, “to concern oneself with”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 心配 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).