noun
condolence; sympathy; mourning
Formal or literary term for expressing sympathy over someone's death. Commonly used in phrases like 弔意を示す or 弔意を表する.
遺族に弔意を示すために弔問した。
I paid a condolence visit to express my sympathy to the bereaved family.
弔意を込め
I sent flowers as a token of condolence.
Compound of 弔 (mourning, condolence) and 意 (mind, thought, meaning). The reading is on'yomi. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word has been used in formal Japanese to express condolence.