感
Meanings
1
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).
I got a strong impression from watching this movie.
His words were filled with a feeling of gratitude.
2
abbreviationlinguistics
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.
Usage patterns
- 〈事〉の感があるto have a sense/feeling that ...
His opinion has a somewhat off-the-mark feel to it.
- 〈事〉の感を深くするto deepen one's sense/feeling of ...
Meeting him after so long deepened my sense of how time had passed.
- 〈事〉という感を受けるto get the impression that ...
Her explanation gave me the impression of being somewhat contradictory.