How to say "feelings" in Japanese

• 感情かんじょうJLPT N3approx.Common
  no-adjectiveThe word for feelings as emotions — inner states such as joy, anger, or sadness — when you talk about expressing, controlling, or hiding what you feel.
  トムは自分じぶんの感情かんじょうをぐっと抑おさえた。↗

  Tom got a grip on his emotions.
• 感想かんそうJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounCovers 'feelings' in the sense of your reactions to something you have read, seen, or experienced — impressions and thoughts rather than emotions; the word for what you report back afterwards.
  ゲームについてのご感想かんそうは？↗

  How did you feel about the game?
• 情じょうJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounAs a standalone word it appears chiefly in set expressions and suggests human warmth or tender sentiment, so it is seldom what you reach for when you simply mean 'feelings'.
• 所感しょかんCommon
  nounReally a word for impressions and opinions — the 'feelings' you state about something — not for emotions; seldom the right choice when you mean what you feel inside.
  彼女かのじょは戦争せんそうについて所感しょかんを述のべた。↗

  She expressed her sentiments on the war.
• 喜怒哀楽きどあいらくCommon
  nounA four-character idiom naming joy, anger, grief and pleasure; use it for the emotions of human life taken as a whole, as when describing a story that captures life's emotional ups and downs.
  喜怒哀楽きどあいらくを見みせるな。↗

  Don't let your feelings show.

Choose 感情 for emotions as inner states, 感想 for the impressions and reactions you report after an experience, 所感 for stated opinions, 情 for sentiment in set phrases, and 喜怒哀楽 for the full range of human emotions.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• 感情かんじょうemotion
• 感想かんそうimpressions
• 情じょうfeelings
• 所感しょかんimpressions
• 喜怒哀楽きどあいらくhuman emotions (joy, anger, grief and pleasure)
• 意いfeelings
• 胸三寸むねさんずんheart
• 襟懐きんかい(one's) inner thoughts
• 胸懐きょうかいheart
• 心気しんきmentality
• 血ち(the) blood
• 思いおもいfeelings
• 気きmood
• 腹はらfeelings
• 胸むねheart