First opened Saturday, October 1, 2011
心中
しんじゅう
- flat (heiban)
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).
double suicide
Shinjū is 心 (shin, “heart, mind, spirit”) plus 中 (-chū, “center, throughout”), with the chū voiced to jū.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
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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 心(しん) (shin, “heart, mind, spirit”) + 中(ちゅう) (-chū, “center, throughout”, rendaku form 中(じゅう) (jū)).”
Source: Wiktionary: 心中 (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 心中 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not しんじゅう. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
しんちゅう
- “From Middle Chinese compound 心中 (MC sim trjuwng, literally “heart + center, middle, within”).”
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).