感覚

• 読み: かんかく
• ローマ字: kankaku
• 漢字の分解: 感 (kan) — feeling, sense; 覚 (kaku) — awareness, perception
• 発音: /kaɴ.ka.kɯ/

意味

Sense; sensation. The faculty of perceiving through the body or an intuitive feeling.

A noun that can also function with する in certain contexts. Covers both physical senses (五感, the five senses) and abstract intuition or feeling (金銭感覚, sense of money; 時間の感覚, sense of time). Often used to describe someone's innate ability to perceive or judge things, as in センスがいい (good sense) or 感覚が鋭い (sharp senses).

例文

1. 寒さで指の感覚がなくなった。
2. 彼女は色の感覚がとても鋭い。
3. 久しぶりに泳いだら感覚を思い出した。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, art, health

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Compound of 感 (kan, feeling/sense) and 覚 (kaku, awareness/perception). Together, 'felt awareness' — the experience of perceiving something through body or mind.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal