Common word› JLPT N3 › Freq. Frequency Top 10,000 Conjugation 感心する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 感かん 心しん する 感かん 心しん しない Polite 感かん 心しん します 感かん 心しん しません Past polite 感かん 心しん しました 感かん 心しん しませんでした Past 感かん 心しん した 感かん 心しん しなかった Te-form 感かん 心しん して 感かん 心しん しないで Desire 感かん 心しん したい 感かん 心しん したくない Potential 感かん 心しん できる 感かん 心しん できない Passive 感かん 心しん される 感かん 心しん されない Causative 感かん 心しん させる 感かん 心しん させない Causative passive 感かん 心しん させられる 感かん 心しん させられない Volitional 感かん 心しん しよう Polite volitional 感かん 心しん しましょう Imperative 感かん 心しん しろ 感かん 心しん するな Conditional 感かん 心しん すれば 感かん 心しん しなければ Tara conditional 感かん 心しん したら 感かん 心しん しなかったら
Usage patterns 〈 事こと 〉 に 感かん 心しん する to be impressed by ~
I was impressed by his effort.
感かん 心しん な 〈 人ひと 〉 an admirable, praiseworthy person
He's an admirable kid who often helps out at home.
あまり 感かん 心しん しない not very impressive; hard to approve of
I can't say I'm too impressed with that approach.
〈 人ひと 〉 に 感かん 心しん させられる to find oneself impressed by someone
I couldn't help but be impressed by his composure.
Kanji 感 emotion, feeling, sensation Related words· 9 感動 is being emotionally moved or touched, while 感心 is being impressed by someone's skill, effort, or conduct.
尊敬 is lasting respect or esteem for a person, while 感心 is often a more immediate reaction to a specific act or ability.
感心する is a general, neutral verb for being impressed, while 頭が下がる specifically expresses humble admiration for someone's effort or character.
感心 expresses being impressed by a specific act or quality, whereas 一目置く conveys an ongoing recognition of someone's overall higher standing.
Show 5 more Show fewer 感心 (usually 感心する ) names the feeling of admiration one has, whereas 殊勝 describes the admirable quality of the person's attitude itself.
感心 expresses being impressed by someone's skill, effort, or good conduct, while 惚れ惚れ expresses being captivated by someone's beauty, charm, or overall appeal.
感心 is admiration for someone's skill, effort, or attitude, while 驚嘆 implies being astonished by something remarkable or sublime.
感心 is a everyday word for being impressed by someone's skill or behavior, while 感嘆 is more literary and stresses awe or wonder.
感心する simply means to be impressed, while 恐れ入る in this sense adds a nuance of being humbled or overwhelmed by the other person's skill.
Opposites 軽蔑 is looking down on someone with contempt, the opposite of 感心 's admiration for someone's qualities.
感心する means to be impressed and admire something, the positive counterpart to the usually negative, critical 呆れる .
Don't confuse with· 6 呆れる is plain negative astonishment or exasperation, while 感心 is normally positive but can shade into the same feeling in ironic or negative use.
感心 means to admire or be impressed by someone's skill or conduct, while 感動 refers to being emotionally moved, so the two are easily confused despite sharing the kanji 感 .
感心 means to be impressed or admire something, while 熱心 means to be enthusiastic or eager about it; learners often mix up the two 心 -words.
Show 3 more Show fewer 感心 (also read かんしん ) means being impressed or full of admiration, which is easily confused with 関心事 despite sharing the kanji 心 and sound かんしん .
関心 (interest/concern) and 感心 (admiration, being impressed) are pronounced identically but written with different kanji and mean very different things.
感心 (かんしん , 'admiration') is easily confused with 肝心 (かんじん , 'essential') due to their near-identical pronunciation despite unrelated meanings.
Written forms 感かん 心しん Usage 99%
Standard kanji spelling; this is a high-priority common form.
かんしん Usage 1%
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound written with 感 , associated with feeling or being moved, and 心 , heart or mind. This explains the modern sense of being struck or impressed by something, though the exact historical development is not specified.
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