思い
Meanings
Noun
1. thought
2. imagination; mind; heart
3. desire; wish; hope; expectation
Noun
Suffix
4. love; affection (e.g. A思いのB for 'B who loves A')
Noun
5. feelings; emotion; sentiment; experience
Other spellings
想い念い
Kanji used
Kanji in other spellings
Pitch accent
おもい
Used in vocabulary
思い切り
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants; as hard as one can; with all one's strength; to the best of one's ability; to the utmost; with determination; hard; heavily; resolution; …
Adverb
思い入れ
emotional attachment; attitude (expressing emotion); meditative pose (e.g. an actor); posing for effect
Noun
思い通り
as one likes; as one wants; as one wishes; as one hopes; as one sees fit; to one's satisfaction
No-adjective
思い思い
just as (each) one likes; as (each) one pleases; as (each) one prefers; (each) in one's own way
Adverb
Examples65
遠方 に 明かり が 見えた とき 私たち は ほっと する 思い だった。
We felt relieved when we saw a light in the distance.
思い は 口 に 出る。
What the heart thinks, the mouth speaks.
多く の つらい 思い が 彼女 には 残っていた。
Many painful memories inhabited her mind.
しかし、 また 出かける こと が いつも うれしい 思い でした。
But he was always happy to leave again.
つながれている という 思い が つのった。
Thoughts of being trapped grew stronger.
彼 は 思い を 故郷 に 向けていた。
He turned his thoughts toward home.