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First opened Sunday, March 20, 2022

内心

ないしん

  • 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).

innermost thoughts, real intention, inmost heart

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'漢語 · Sino-Japanese

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Written with 内心

In a sentence

  • 政治(せいじ)家(か)は決(けっ)して内心(ないしん)を見(み)せない。

    Politicians never tell us their inner thoughts.

    Tatoeba #143183, translation #271385

  • 彼(かれ)は自信(じしん)ありげに見(み)えたが、内心(ないしん)は全然(ぜんぜん)違(ちが)っていた。

    He looked confident but his inner feelings were quite different.

    Tatoeba #105219, translation #298470

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What Wiktionary says

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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.

Also opened on March 20

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