ねん
Meanings
Noun
1. (Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology
Kanji used
logic
a sense of
Pitch accent
ねん
Top 14700
Composed of
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
basic principle; fundamental principle
management philosophy; management principles; managerial creed
Examples (2 in total)
These ideas are embodied in the constitution.
After the war, the idea of democracy spread throughout Japan.