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
We felt relieved when we saw a light in the distance.
思い
What the heart thinks, the mouth speaks.
多く
Many painful memories inhabited her mind.
しかし、
But he was always happy to leave again.
つながれている
Thoughts of being trapped grew stronger.
彼
He turned his thoughts toward home.