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    3. 非情

    非情

    非ひ情じょう

    cold-hearted

    KMT8News #25+1Noun, Adjective, ParticleReligion & PhilosophyEmotions & PsychologyKanji Vocab19 strokes

    ひじょう

    Noun, Adjective, Particle

    1.
    cold-hearted, callous, unfeeling, cruel
    2.
    insentient (objects), insensate, inanimate
    Buddhism

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    彼かれは非ひ情じょうな決けつ断だんを下くだした。

    He made a cold-hearted decision.

    KMT7Emotions & Psychology
    戦せん争そうは非ひ情じょうな現げん実じつを突つきつける。

    War confronts us with a cruel reality.

    KMT8Politics & LawEmotions & Psychology
    非ひ情じょうな態たい度どで接せっする上じょう司しに、部ぶ下かたちは不ふ満まんを抱いだいていた。

    Subordinates harbored dissatisfaction towards their boss who treated them with a callous attitude.

    KMT8Work & CareerEmotions & Psychology
    仏ぶっ教きょうでは、草くさ木きなどの無む生せい物ぶつも非ひ情じょうの存そん在ざいとして捉とらえられます。

    In Buddhism, inanimate objects like plants are also regarded as insentient beings.

    KMT8Religion & Philosophyphilosophy
    自し然ぜん界かいの法ほう則そくは時ときに非ひ情じょうであり、弱じゃく肉にく強きょう食しょくの世せ界かいが広ひろがっている。

    The laws of the natural world are sometimes unfeeling, and a world where the strong prey on the weak prevails.

    KMT9Nature & Environmentphilosophy

    Kanji that make up this word

    非
    あら.ず…(1)
    un-・mistake・negative・injustice・non-
    情
    なさ.け…(2)
    feelings・emotion・passion・sympathy・circumstances…(1)
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