ひしひし

• 読み: ひしひし
• ローマ字: hishihishi
• 発音: /hi.ɕi.hi.ɕi/

意味

Acutely; keenly; deeply. Describes feeling something intensely and unmistakably, as though it presses against you.

A mimetic adverb (擬態語) almost always used with 感じる (kanjiru, to feel) or 伝わる (tsutawaru, to be conveyed): ひしひしと感じる (to feel keenly/acutely). It describes an emotion or realisation that comes pressing in on you with undeniable force — responsibility, loneliness, the passage of time. The sensation is not sudden but building and inescapable. The kanji 犇々 exists but is essentially never used in modern writing.

例文

1. 親のありがたさをひしひしと感じた。
2. 責任の重さがひしひしと伝わってきた。
3. 年を重ねるにつれ時間の大切さをひしひしと実感する。

使い方ガイド

場面: emotions, self-reflection, literature

トーン: introspective

起源と歴史

A Japanese mimetic word (擬態語) evoking the physical sensation of being pressed tightly. Originally described objects pressing closely together (ひしひしと詰まる), and the emotional sense of 'acutely feeling' developed from this image of inescapable closeness.

文化的背景

時代: Pre-modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal