Keyword
romantic love
Info
FrequencyTop 500-600
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 4
Heisig1885
Old form
Readings
こい
(74%)
れん
(24%)
Composed of
bloody knife
heart
Mnemonic

How to best interrupt someone's romantic love? With a bloody knife to the heart, of course. Every yandere knows that.

Used in vocabulary (132 in total)
lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
(romantic) love
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
Examples (120 in total)
I fell in love with you.
I wonder if this is love.
It's not that I want a girlfriend, I just want to be in love.