Kanji
N1 13 strokes Grade 8 freq #1875

rue, be sad, sigh, lament

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

heart kokoro

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

deep emotion; strong feelings
indignation; resentment
deep emotion; being filled with emotion
indignant lamentation over the evils of the times
indignant lamentation over the evils of the times
deploring; lamentation
righteous indignation; patriotic lamentation
deploring the course of public events
indignant; sorrowful
one's heart is filled with even deeper emotion; feeling the emotion all the more deeply

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

deeply emotive; moving
to regret; to deplore

Example sentences

His indignation got the better of him.

I am indignant about the way he treated me.