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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

親しん近きん感かん

shinkinkan

feeling of closeness, affinity

Example sentences

  1. いやいや、結構結構けっこうけっこう。下したの名前なまえで呼よび合あうのは親近感しんきんかんがわいてよろしいことだ。

    Not at all, that’s perfectly fine. Calling each other by one’s given name is a good thing; it produces a feeling of fellowship.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 親近感しんきんかんが湧わいてきた。

    I felt a sense of affinity well up. / A sense of affinity has welled up.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. からくり人形にんぎょうなどを見慣みなれていたため、日本人にっぽんじんはロボットに対たいし親近感しんきんかんがあり、ロボットに抵抗感ていこうかんのある欧米人おうべいじんとは対照的たいしょうてきであるとする論ろんもある。

    Some say that Japanese feel familiar with robots because they were used to seeing a karakuri ningyo and the like, in contrast to the Western people who feel antipathy to robots.

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

Kanji in 親近感

  • 親parent; intimacyOnシンKunおや・おや-・したしい
  • 近near; earlyOnキン・コンKunちかい
  • 感emotion; feelingOnカン

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