気兼ね
N1きがね kigane
- hesitance
- diffidence
- feeling constraint
- 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"
}
}