Illustration: While sorting a cupboard in their childhood home, an adult discovers a worn wooden spinning top wrapped in an old cloth. They cradle it gently with both hands and smile with softened eyes.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

懐なつかしむ

natsukashimu

to recall fondly

Example sentences

  1. 昔食むかしたべた、昔むかしながらの塩辛しおからい沢庵たくあんを懐なつかしむ意見いけんも多おおい。

    Many people expressed their longing for the good old salty takuan that they ate in olden days according to their feedback.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 松平定信まつだいらさだのぶは庶民しょみんの着物きものの柄がらまで制限せいげんするほどの質素倹約しっそけんやくな方針ほうしんだったので、良よくも悪わるくも世俗的せぞくてきな田沼意次たぬまおきつぐの政治せいじを懐なつかしむ声こえも見みられた。

    Sadanobu MATSUDAIRA’s policy of frugality went so far as to restrict even the patterns on commoners' kimonos, so some people came to miss the more worldly politics of Okitsugu TANUMA, for better or worse.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 祖母そぼは昔むかしの町並まちなみを懐なつかしんだ。

    My grandmother fondly recalled the town as it used to be.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 懐

  • 懐feelings; heartOnカイ・エKunふところ・なつかしい・なつかしむ

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