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JLPT BANDN5 BEGINNER → N1 ADVANCED

気き兼がね

N1
きがね kigane
  1. hesitance
  2. diffidence
  3. feeling constraint
  4. fear of troubling someone
nounする verbintransitive

Chinese meanings

顾虑;拘束

Examples

  • 思ったことを気兼ねなく言っていいんだよ。
    Feel free to share your thoughts.
    你可以不必顾虑,想到什么就说什么。
  • トムが女の子だったらよかったのに。そしたら気兼ねなく寄り添ってられたのに。
    I wish that Tom were a girl. That way I would be able to get close to him without any hesitation.
    要是汤姆是女孩就好了,那样就可以毫无顾虑地依偎在一起了。
Use this entry in code
import { getVocabById } from 'kotowa';
getVocabById('f5725dfb67'); // 気兼ね
{
  "id": "f5725dfb67",
  "word": "気兼ね",
  "reading": "きがね",
  "romaji": "kigane",
  "meanings": [
    "hesitance",
    "diffidence",
    "feeling constraint",
    "fear of troubling someone"
  ],
  "level": "N1",
  "pos": [
    "n",
    "vs",
    "vi"
  ],
  "jmdict_id": 1222120,
  "examples": [
    {
      "ja": "思ったことを気兼ねなく言っていいんだよ。",
      "en": "Feel free to share your thoughts.",
      "tatoeba_id": 10544168
    },
    {
      "ja": "トムが女の子だったらよかったのに。そしたら気兼ねなく寄り添ってられたのに。",
      "en": "I wish that Tom were a girl. That way I would be able to get close to him without any hesitation.",
      "tatoeba_id": 3137751
    }
  ],
  "zh": {
    "source_hash": "f9ad57e51b6ddf0cd19fc9d8df8a96ce8e87259575c56fff968b81fa3d0437f9",
    "meanings": [
      "顾虑",
      "拘束"
    ],
    "examples": [
      {
        "ja": "思ったことを気兼ねなく言っていいんだよ。",
        "zh": "你可以不必顾虑,想到什么就说什么。"
      },
      {
        "ja": "トムが女の子だったらよかったのに。そしたら気兼ねなく寄り添ってられたのに。",
        "zh": "要是汤姆是女孩就好了,那样就可以毫无顾虑地依偎在一起了。"
      }
    ],
    "references": [
      "upstream vocab/n1/f5725dfb67",
      "JMdict ent_seq 1222120; checked against downloaded JMdict_e.gz on 2026-10-28",
      "Original Chinese authored and reviewed by Codex; no independent human review"
    ],
    "review_hash": "791ee9b01482346998439340c1d4667db54e1d41e91267550e7bc1f01e31cb78",
    "status": "reviewed",
    "reviewer": "Codex",
    "review_method": "ai",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-28"
  }
}