かんねん
Meanings
Noun
1. idea; notion; concept; conception
2. sense (e.g. of duty)
Noun
Verb (する)
3. resignation; preparedness; acceptance
4. observation and contemplation; meditation
Pitch accent
んねん
Composed of
look; appearance; spectacle; sight; observation meditation; outlook on ...
sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care
Used in vocabulary (19 in total)
obsession; unreasonable but compulsive idea
conceptual; ideational; notional; theoretical; academic
fixed idea; idée fixe; stereotype; prejudice
sense of virtue
sense of morality; moral sense
sense of economy
ready-made ideas
ideation; process of forming and relating ideas; to ideate
German idealism
association (e.g. of two concepts)
innate idea; innate ideas
fixed idea; idée fixe; obsession; fixation
sense of direction
the orientation of time and place; awareness of the existing situation
innate idea; innate ideas
acquired idea (as opposed to innate); acquired ideas
contemplation (on Amida Buddha, the Pure Land, etc.)
Examples (2 in total)
The idea of happiness is extremely abstract.
He has completely lost all sense of duty.