First opened Tuesday, July 19, 2011
心得
こころえ
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
- tail-high (odaka): falls after mora 4
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
knowledge, information
Kokoroe is the continuative stem of the verb 心得る (kokoroeru, “to know, understand”).
Taken apart
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Wiktionary's text doesn't split this word, so each part is one of its kanji (with the okurigana written after it), with the reading and the dictionary meaning KANJIDIC2 gives that character — a word doesn't always use every sense of its kanji.
In a sentence
彼には自分が悪かったことを認めるぐらいの心得もなかった。
He didn't have the decency to admit that he was wrong.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
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.
- “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 心(こころ)得(え)る (kokoroeru, “to know, understand”), from classical verb 心(こころ)得(う) (kokorou, see below).”
Source: Wiktionary: 心得 (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).
Other readings of 心得 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not こころえ. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
こころう・こころゆ
- “心(こころ) (kokoro, “heart”) + 得(う) (u, Classical Japanese form of 得(え)る (eru, “to get”))”
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.