心情

Taken apart

1. 心

   しん

   heart

2. +

3. 情

   じょう

   emotion

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Written with 心情

In a sentence

• 嫉妬(しっと)心(しん)くらい強(つよ)く人間(にんげん)の心情(しんじょう)に巣食(すく)う情熱(じょうねつ)はない。

  There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

  Tatoeba #149550, translation #265008

• 我々(われわれ)が真理(しんり)を知(し)るのは、理知(りち)によるだけではなく、また心情(しんじょう)によって知(し)るのである。

  We know the truth, not only by reason, but also at heart.

  Tatoeba #186370, translation #23506

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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 (shin, “heart”) + 情 (jō, “emotion”).”

Source: Wiktionary: 心情 (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).

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.