胸が痛む

• 読み: むねがいたむ
• ローマ字: mune ga itamu
• 漢字の分解: 胸 (mune) — chest, heart; 痛 (ita) — pain, hurt
• 発音: /mɯ.ne ga i.ta.mɯ/

意味

To feel heartache; to be pained with grief, sympathy, or deep distress.

A set expression combining 胸 (chest, the seat of emotion in Japanese) and 痛む (to be in pain). It describes emotional pain — typically arising from sympathy for another's suffering, grief over a loss, or remorse over one's own actions. Widely used and accessible, it mirrors the cross-cultural experience of emotional pain felt physically in the chest.

例文

1. 被災地の映像を見て、胸が痛む思いで募金箱に手を伸ばした。
2. 幼い子どもが泣きながら親を探しているのを見ると、胸が痛む。
3. あのときの自分の言葉を思い出すたび、今でも胸が痛む。

使い方ガイド

場面: empathy, grief, remorse, compassion

トーン: sorrowful

起源と歴史

胸 (chest) functions as the locus of emotion in Japanese, much as the heart does in English. 痛む means to ache or hurt. The phrase mirrors the universal experience of emotional pain felt as physical sensation in the chest.

文化的背景

時代: Pre-modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal