Word Meaning 惻隠

そくいん sokuin

惻隠 is read as そくいん (sokuin) and means compassion.

Meaning

English

  1. compassion
  2. pity

Reading

Kana

そくいん

Romaji

sokuin

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 26 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

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惻隠の情

そくいんのじょう

compassion

大隠

たいいん

enlightened hermit

葉隠

はがくれ

Hagakure (treatise on bushido as told to Tashiro Tsuramoto by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, 1716)

退隠

たいいん

retirement (from an official position)

羽隠

はねかくし

rove beetle

見え隠れ

みえがくれ

appearing and disappearing

隠す

かくす

to hide

隠れ家

かくれが

retreat

隠居

いんきょ

surrendering headship of the family (pre-WWII)

隠語

いんご

secret language

隠匿

いんとく

concealment (esp. of wrongdoings or criminals)