Character · Mind and speech
心
こころ kokoroしょしん shoshinうおごころ uogokoroみずごころ mizugokoro
heart
Composition
Origin
Pictogram of the heart: the organ drawn with its chambers.
In the thoughts
- 初心shoshinbeginner's spirit
- 魚心uogokorofish's heart
- 水心mizugokorowater's heart
- 専心senshinwhole heart
- 誠心seishinsincere heart
- 心機shinkistate of mind
- 疑心gishinsuspicion
Proverbs carrying this character
- 015 初心忘るべからず Never forget the beginner's spirit.
- 055 親の心子知らず The child does not know the parent's heart.
- 091 魚心あれば水心 If the fish loves the water, the water will love the fish.
- 132 一意専心 One aim, whole heart.
- 139 誠心誠意 With whole heart, in full sincerity.
- 186 心機一転 A full turn of the heart.
- 244 疑心暗鬼 Suspicion fills the dark with phantoms.
- 270 目は心の鏡 The eyes are the mirror of the heart.
- 290 やまとうたは、人の心を種として、万の言の葉とぞなれりける Japanese poetry has the human heart as its seed, from which grow myriad leaves of words.
- 300 初心の花を忘るべからず Do not forget the flower of your beginnings.