feeling; sensation; impression
Broadly covers physical sensations, emotional feelings, and the impression one gets from something. Often used in compounds like 達成感 (sense of accomplishment) or 違和感 (feeling of wrongness).
His opinion has a somewhat off-the-mark feel to it.
I got a strong impression from watching this movie.
His words were filled with a feeling of gratitude.
Linguistics term; abbreviation of 感動詞. Used in dictionary contexts to label interjections. Not used in everyday conversation.
See also: 感動詞
In dictionaries, words like 'aa' or 'oya' may be tagged with '感' as their part of speech.
Meeting him after so long deepened my sense of how time had passed.
Her explanation gave me the impression of being somewhat contradictory.
感じ is the everyday, colloquial word for a vague impression or atmosphere, whereas 感 is more formal and typically appears as a suffix in compounds like 違和感.
印象 focuses on the impression something leaves on the mind, while 感 is a broader term that also covers physical sensations.
感 (feeling, sensation, impression) and 勘 (intuition, hunch) are pronounced identically but refer to different concepts.
観 and 感 are both read かん and both appear as abstract suffixes, but 観 denotes a considered view or outlook (主観, 世界観) while 感 denotes a felt sense or impression (実感, 違和感).
The kanji 感 is a Sino-Japanese morpheme meaning 'feel, sense'. The reading かん is the on'yomi. As a standalone noun or suffix, it carries the core meaning of feeling or sensation.
presentiment; premonition; hunch · have a premonition; have a hunch
uncomfortable feeling; sense of discomfort; feeling out of place · malaise; physical unease
sympathy; empathy; identification
bodily sensation; physical feeling; experience · coenesthesia; cenesthesia
admiration; being impressed · admirable; praiseworthy · astonishment; being appalled
intuition; instinct; hunch
pleasant feeling; pleasure
sensitive; alert; susceptible
sensitivity; reception quality · film speed; ISO sensitivity
deep emotion; being deeply moved; strong impression
sensitivity; sensibility; sense
favorable impression; good feeling; goodwill
feel; touch; texture; sensation · feeling; impression
same feeling; agreement; sympathy
perception; sensing; detection
feel keenly; realize acutely
texture; feel (of a material)
deep impression; being deeply moved
antipathy; hostility; ill feeling
sexual feelings; sexual sensation
insensitive; thick-skinned; obtuse
inspiration; creative spark · sixth sense; psychic ability; sensitivity to the supernatural