感じ取る・感じとる|かんじとるkanjitoru[4]nakadaka (mid-high)
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Which spelling to use
感じ取る感じ取る（かんじとる） is the most common written form and the recommended choice for beginners; use it as your default spelling when writing.
感じとる感じとる（かんじとる） is a less common written variant of 感じ取る（かんじとる）; learners will generally want to choose 感じ取る（かんじとる） instead.
Definitions
- godan verb, transitive verbto perceive; to sense; to take in; to grasp; to feel
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 感じ取る（かんじとる） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 感じ取ります（かんじとります） |
| Negative (nai) | 感じ取らない（かんじとらない） |
| polite (masen) | 感じ取りません（かんじとりません） |
| classical zu / nu | 感じ取らず・感じ取らぬ（かんじとらず・かんじとらぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 感じ取った（かんじとった） |
| polite (mashita) | 感じ取りました（かんじとりました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 感じ取らなかった（かんじとらなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 感じ取りませんでした（かんじとりませんでした） |
| Te form | 感じ取って（かんじとって） |
| Potential | 感じ取れる（かんじとれる） |
| Passive | 感じ取られる（かんじとられる） |
| Causative | 感じ取らせる（かんじとらせる） |
| Causative passive | 感じ取らせられる・感じ取らされる（かんじとらせられる・かんじとらされる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 感じ取れば（かんじとれば） |
| tara | 感じ取ったら（かんじとったら） |
| Volitional | 感じ取ろう（かんじとろう） |
| polite (mashou) | 感じ取りましょう（かんじとりましょう） |
| Imperative | 感じ取れ（かんじとれ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym感知かんちNeutralPerceiving via the senses or sensors; leans technical, as with devices detecting changes. It does not carry the nuance of sensitive, heartfelt appreciation.
- Synonym感じるかんじるNeutralThe most basic word for feeling or sensing something. It covers general feelings and does not stress reading atmosphere or hearts with care.
- Synonym感ずるかんずるWrittenA written, somewhat old-fashioned equivalent of 「感じる」. Same basic sense of feeling, without the nuance of sensitively taking in atmosphere or feelings.
- Synonym察知さっちWrittenWritten-style: inferring danger, trends, or things already happening from signs. 「感じ取る」 is about feeling things out with the heart, not deducing from evidence.
- Synonym感受かんじゅWrittenFeeling things with the heart, but also receiving stimuli or radio waves; rare even in writing. 「感じ取る」 is the more everyday choice.
- Synonym悟るさとるNeutralComing to a thorough realization — fully grasping a truth or principle. It goes beyond the softer, more delicate sensing of 「感じ取る」.
- Synonym察するさっするNeutralSensing someone's feelings with sympathy and consideration, as in 「お察しします」 — it carries a considerate nuance beyond mere perception.
- Synonym知覚ちかくWrittenPerception as a faculty — a psychology term for what the sense organs do. It names the function itself, not the act of sensitively feeling something out.
- Synonym気がつくきがつくNeutralCommon in speech for noticing or realizing; it can also mean coming to, regaining consciousness. No nuance of delicate emotional perception.
- Synonym感づくかんづくCasualColloquial. Vaguely sensing a secret or plot, with an edge of wariness; 「感じ取る」 is about sensitively feeling out atmosphere and people's feelings.
- Synonym看取かんしゅWrittenSeeing through or making out by looking; rare even in written prose. The emphasis is on grasping with the eyes, not sensing with the heart as 「感じ取る」 does.
- Related気づくきづくNeutralThe everyday standby for noticing or becoming aware of something. It does not convey sensitively picking up on atmosphere or unspoken feelings.
- Related捉えるとらえるNeutralGrasping or capturing a point accurately — catching essential features in a cool, analytical way rather than feeling them out with the heart.
- Related見抜くみぬくNeutralSeeing through to the essence — piercing to the truth with keen insight. 「感じ取る」 is gentler, about picking up feelings rather than exposing them.
- Related心付くこころづくWrittenA written, old-fashioned word for becoming aware or realizing; rarely used today. It can also mean regaining consciousness.
- Related嗅ぎ分けるかぎわけるNeutralLiterally telling things apart by smell; figuratively, discerning good from bad. The focus is on discrimination, not on feeling out moods or hearts.
- Antonym見落とすみおとすNeutralThe opposite: overlooking or failing to notice something that is there, where 「感じ取る」 means picking it up sensitively.
Use 「感じ取る」 for sensitively picking up atmosphere or someone's feelings with the heart, as in 「相手の気持ちを感じ取る」. For feeling something in general, say 「感じる」; for simply noticing, 「気づく」; for sensing danger or developments from signs, 「察知」; for reading someone's feelings with sympathy, 「察する」. The opposite — failing to notice — is 「見落とす」.
Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only
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