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感覚 (かんかく, kankaku) Japanese meaning: sense | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N3 › Freq. Frequency Top 2,000 Conjugation 感覚する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 感かん 覚かく する 感かん 覚かく しない Polite 感かん 覚かく します 感かん 覚かく しません Past polite 感かん 覚かく しました 感かん 覚かく しませんでした Past 感かん 覚かく した 感かん 覚かく しなかった Te-form 感かん 覚かく して 感かん 覚かく しないで Desire 感かん 覚かく したい 感かん 覚かく したくない Potential 感かん 覚かく できる 感かん 覚かく できない Passive 感かん 覚かく される 感かん 覚かく されない Causative 感かん 覚かく させる 感かん 覚かく させない Causative passive 感かん 覚かく させられる 感かん 覚かく させられない Volitional 感かん 覚かく しよう Polite volitional 感かん 覚かく しましょう Imperative 感かん 覚かく しろ 感かん 覚かく するな Conditional 感かん 覚かく すれば 感かん 覚かく しなければ Tara conditional 感かん 覚かく したら 感かん 覚かく しなかったら
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I lost sensation in my fingers from the cold.
He has a sharp sense of fashion.
Somehow I have a bad feeling. I just know it intuitively.
Usage patterns 感かん 覚かく が 鋭するど い to have a keen sense (of something)
He has a keen sense for color.
感かん 覚かく を 失うしな う to lose sensation/feeling
My hands lost feeling from the cold.
〈 事こと 〉 という 感かん 覚かく the sense/feeling that ...
I had a feeling that something was wrong.
感かん 覚かく 的てき に 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do something intuitively/by feel
It was a difficult theory, but I understood it intuitively.
〈 物もの 〉 の 感かん 覚かく がない to have no feeling in (a body part)
I lost all feeling in my legs.
Kanji 感 emotion, feeling, sensation 覚 memorize, learn, remember Related words· 11 感情 refers specifically to emotions like anger or joy, while 感覚 covers a wider range including physical sensations and intuitive impressions.
知覚 is a more technical, scientific term for perception, whereas 感覚 is the everyday word for sensory feeling.
直感 means a sudden intuitive hunch about something specific, while 感覚 more broadly covers ongoing sensory or intuitive awareness.
感覚 is a broad term for sensation or feeling in general, while 五感 specifically denotes the five traditional senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
Show 7 more 感覚 refers to an individual sensation or the general faculty of sensing, while 官能 more often frames the senses collectively, especially with a physical or sensual nuance.
感覚 covers physical sensation or a general sense, whereas フィーリング leans toward an emotional or intuitive 'feel' between people.
感覚 is a broad term for physical sensation or general perception, whereas センス is specifically about aesthetic or intuitive taste.
感覚 is a broad word for any sense or feeling, whereas 実感 specifically means the vivid feeling that something is truly real.
Don't confuse with 感覚 refers to physical sense perception (like touch or sight), while 感情 refers to emotional states like joy or anger, despite sharing the kanji 感.
間隔 (spacing/interval) and 感覚 (sense/feeling) are pronounced identically but refer to completely different concepts, so learners must rely on kanji or context to distinguish them.
Etymology Sino-Japanese compound of 感 (feeling, sensation) and 覚 (perceive, remember). The combination conveys the idea of sensory perception and intuitive awareness.
感覚 refers to basic physical sensation or a general sense, whereas 感性 refers to a more cultivated, discerning perception often tied to art or taste.
感覚 is the general word for a sense or feeling (including the five senses), while 体感 refers specifically to a sensation experienced through the whole body.
感覚 leans toward physical or sensory perception, while 感じ covers a broader range including emotional and intuitive impressions.
Show 5 more sensory; sensuous; intuitive
sensationalism
sensory area; sensorial area
novel; new and exciting; innovative
numb; insensitive (to physical sensation) · apathetic; indifferent; callous
