"思い" meaning in Japanese

See 思い in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [o̞mo̞i] Forms: 思い [canonical] (ruby: (おも)), omoi [romanization], omofi [romanization], おもひ [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: /omopi/ > /omoɸi/ > /omowi/ > /omoi/. The nominalized form of the verb 思う (omou). While not etymologically related, in the historical spelling, the final ひ was often associated with homophonous 火 (hi, “fire”), i.e. "emotions as hot as fire". Head templates: {{ja-noun|おもい|hhira=おもひ}} 思(おも)い • (omoi) ^(←おもひ (omofi)?)
  1. thought
    Sense id: en-思い-ja-noun-uBkjU6OY Categories (other): Japanese terms with 1 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 1 kanji: 11 40 41 9 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 10 39 39 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 43 40 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 34 35 29 2
  2. feeling, emotion, sentiment
    Sense id: en-思い-ja-noun-yMVSG84i Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 1 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 9 39 40 12 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 9 46 35 10 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 9 45 35 11 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 1 kanji: 11 40 41 9 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 10 39 39 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 43 40 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 34 35 29 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 想い (omoi) (ruby: (おも))

Suffix

IPA: [o̞mo̞i] Forms: 思い [canonical] (ruby: (おも)), -omoi [romanization], -omofi [romanization], おもひ [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: /omopi/ > /omoɸi/ > /omowi/ > /omoi/. The nominalized form of the verb 思う (omou). While not etymologically related, in the historical spelling, the final ひ was often associated with homophonous 火 (hi, “fire”), i.e. "emotions as hot as fire". Head templates: {{ja-pos|suffix|おもい|hhira=おもひ}} 思(おも)い • (-omoi) ^(←おもひ (-omofi)?)
  1. considerate of; caring about Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-思い-ja-suffix-ePB1W-~H Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese terms with 1 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 9 39 40 12 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 1 kanji: 11 40 41 9 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 10 39 39 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 43 40 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 34 35 29 2

Verb

IPA: [o̞mo̞i] Forms: 思い [canonical] (ruby: (おも)), omoi [romanization], omofi [romanization], おもひ [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: /omopi/ > /omoɸi/ > /omowi/ > /omoi/. The nominalized form of the verb 思う (omou). While not etymologically related, in the historical spelling, the final ひ was often associated with homophonous 火 (hi, “fire”), i.e. "emotions as hot as fire". Head templates: {{ja-verb form|おもい|hhira=おもひ}} 思(おも)い • (omoi) ^(←おもひ (omofi)?)
  1. stem or continuative form of 思う (omou) [godan] Tags: continuative, form-of, stem Form of: 思う (extra: omou)
    Sense id: en-思い-ja-verb-LEPgZiJd Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 9 39 40 12 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 10 39 39 12
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Download raw JSONL data for 思い meaning in Japanese (4.9kB)

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  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "思い",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.