Meaning & readings
romance, in love, yearn for, miss, darling
Origin
This character combines a sound hint with a meaning classifier to express the idea of romantic longing. The bottom part, heart (心), is the classifying radical that points to the emotional nature of the concept — romance and yearning are matters of the heart. The top component (亦) serves as a sound hint, roughly suggesting the pronunciation rather than contributing a separate meaning. Together, the character visually represents how romantic feelings dwell in the heart, while the sound component guides how it should be read aloud.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 亦
- 心
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 61
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1296 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+0604B