念

Meaning

念 centers on the mind holding something: a thought, feeling, wish, or desire that stays present. Attention is the act of keeping something in mind.

• 記念きねん
  N3

  commemoration; celebration; remembrance; memory; honoring the memory of

• 残念ざんねん
  N5

  regrettable; unfortunate; disappointing; vexing

• 概念がいねん
  N1

  general idea; concept; notion

• 念ねん
  N1

  sense; idea; thought; feeling

• 懸念けねん
  N1

  worry; fear; anxiety; concern

• 理念りねん
  N1

  (Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

• 信念しんねん
  N1

  belief; faith; conviction

• 断念だんねん
  N1

  abandoning (hope, plans); giving up

• 観念かんねん
  N2

  idea; notion; concept; conception

• 専念せんねん
  N2

  absorption; giving undivided attention; devoting oneself (to)

• 念願ねんがん
  N1

  one's heart's desire; one's dearest wish

• 疑念ぎねん

  doubt; suspicion; misgivings; scruples

• 念頭ねんとう
  N1

  (on one's) mind; heed

• 無念むねん
  N1

  regret; chagrin; mortification

• 執念しゅうねん
  N1

  tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability

• 念仏ねんぶつ

  nembutsu; nianfo; the three-word invocation "Namu Amida Butsu" dedicated to the Amitabha Buddha

• 念入りねんいり
  N1

  careful; scrupulous; thorough; conscientious; elaborate; deliberate; attentive

• 入念にゅうねん
  N1

  careful; elaborate; scrupulous

• 祈念きねん

  prayer

• 天然記念物てんねんきねんぶつ

  natural monument

• 通念つうねん

  common idea; common wisdom; generally accepted idea

• 余念よねん

  another idea

• 正念場しょうねんば

  critical moment; do-or-die situation; critical juncture

• 念力ねんりき
  N1

  willpower; faith

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