慰

Meaning

慰 centers on easing emotional pain: comforting someone, cheering them up, or providing consolation. The amusement and seduce senses are lighter applications of that same idea of soothing or diverting the heart.

• 慰安いあん

  solace; relaxation

• 慰めなぐさめ

  comfort; consolation; diversion

• 自慰じい

  masturbation; onanism

• 慰霊いれい

  consoling the spirits of the dead

• 慰謝いしゃ

  consolation

• 慰めるなぐさめる
  N2

  to comfort; to console; to amuse

• 慰問いもん

  visit to console someone; giving comfort (to the sick, injured, etc.); expressing condolences (sympathy, concern, etc.); sympathy call

• 慰労いろう

  recognition of services

• 慰みなぐさみ

  amusement; diversion (to pass time); pastime; recreation

• 慰留いりゅう

  dissuasion (from resigning, leaving, etc.); persuading (to stay)

• 慰霊祭いれいさい

  memorial service

• 合同慰霊祭ごうどういれいさい

  joint service for the war dead

• 弔慰ちょうい

  condolence; sympathy

• 弔慰金ちょういきん

  condolence money

• 従軍慰安婦じゅうぐんいあんふ

  comfort woman; prostitute who worked in military brothels, esp. one forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII

• 恋慰めこいなぐさめ

  comforting the lovelorn

• 慰み半分なぐさみはんぶん

  partly for fun; capricious

• 慰み物なぐさみもの

  source of amusement; plaything

• 慰み者なぐさみもの

  (person treated as a) plaything

• 慰むなぐさむ

  to feel comforted; to be in good spirits; to feel better; to forget one's worries

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