情じょう

noun

feelings; emotion; sentiment

Refers to emotion or sentiment as opposed to reason or facts; common in phrases such as 情に流される and 情に訴える.

• 情じょうに流ながされず、事じ実じつだけを見みよう。

  Let's not be swayed by emotion; let's look only at the facts.

noun

compassion; sympathy

Used for warm human feeling toward others; especially natural in set phrases such as 情に厚い.

• 彼かれは情じょうに厚あつく、困こまっている人ひとを放ほうっておけない。

  He is compassionate and cannot ignore people in trouble.

noun

affection; attachment; love

Refers to affectionate attachment, including romantic feeling or emotional attachment that develops through closeness; common with 情が移る and 情を断ち切る.

• 長ながく一いっ緒しょにいるうちに、その犬いぬに情じょうが移うつった。

  After being together for so long, I grew attached to the dog.

• 彼かれは昔むかしの恋こい人びとへの情じょうを断たち切きれなかった。

  He could not cut off his feelings for his former lover.

noun

actual situation; real state of affairs; circumstances

This use is most visible as a compound-forming element in words such as 実情, 事情, 内情, and 敵情, where 情 refers to the state or circumstances of something.

• 現げん地ちの実じつ情じょうを詳くわしく調しらべた。

  They investigated the actual conditions on the ground in detail.