慈悲|じひjihi[0]heiban (flat)

1. no-adjectivemercy; compassion; clemency; pity; charity; benevolence
   ヤッパリさんが裁判官さいばんかんに慈悲じひを求もとめて訴うったえた。↗

   Mr. Yappari appealed to the judge for mercy.
2. nounrufous hawk-cuckoo; northern hawk-cuckoo

• Synonym情けなさけNeutralNative word for human kindness or sympathy, as in 「情けをかける」; common in speech and centered on warm human feeling.
• Synonym同情どうじょうNeutralThe everyday word for sympathy with someone's suffering; no religious overtones, and it stresses sharing their feelings.
• Synonym思いやりおもいやりNeutralConsideration for how others feel; stresses thoughtfulness and need not be directed at someone in misfortune.
• Synonym哀愍あいびんWrittenWritten word for pity; rare, and also used in Buddhism, as in 「衆生を哀愍する」; 「慈悲」 is more common.
• Synonym哀れみあわれみNeutralPity or sympathy, as in 「哀れみをかける」; often carries a looking-down-on-the-other nuance, while 「慈悲」 sounds more magnanimous.
• Synonym憐憫れんびんWrittenWritten term for pity, as in 「自己憐憫」; stresses seeing the other as pitiable and can sound slightly condescending.
• Synonym哀憐あいれんWrittenWritten and rare: pity mixed with tender affection — doting on someone while feeling sorry for them.
• Synonym惻隠の情そくいんのじょうWrittenSet phrase for the compassion that wells up on seeing others suffer; from Mencius, and a formal, literary expression.
• Synonym憐情れんじょうWrittenA pitying heart; written and rarely used.
• Synonym惻隠そくいんWrittenWritten word for compassion, used mostly in the set phrase 「惻隠の情」.
• Synonym慈心じしんWrittenA merciful heart; written, with a Buddhist flavour, and rarely used.
• Synonym仁恕じんじょWrittenWritten term for benevolent leniency that pardons wrongdoing; the stress is on forgiving offences.
• Synonym仁慈じんじWrittenWritten word for kind-hearted benevolence; can describe an ordinary person's character.
• Synonym愛憐あいれんWrittenWritten and rare: sympathy for another's misfortune that moves you to want to rescue them.
• Related人情にんじょうNeutralCommon human feeling or warmth, as in 「人情味」; stresses the warmth of human nature rather than mercy.
• Related不憫ふびんNeutralDescribes someone as pitiable, as in 「不憫な子」; it names the person's sad plight, not the compassion one gives.
• Relatedお情けおなさけNeutralThe sympathy, mercy or care someone grants you, sometimes charity out of pity, as in 「お情けで合格」.
• Related恩情おんじょうNeutralWarm kindness shown by a superior to an inferior, as in 「師の恩情」; stresses a senior's care for juniors.
• Antonym残酷ざんこくNeutralAntonym: cruel and ruthless; the direct opposite of a merciful heart.
• Antonym無情むじょうNeutralAntonym: heartless and cold; the opposite of 「慈悲」.

「慈悲」 is the Buddhist ideal of relieving suffering and giving joy, or broad, forgiving mercy toward people, as in 「慈悲深い」 and 「お慈悲を」. For everyday sympathy say 「同情」, for human kindness 「情け」, for consideration 「思いやり」; the antonyms are 「残酷」 and 「無情」.

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1. 仏ふつ・菩薩ぼさつが衆生しゅじょうをいつくしんで楽たのしみを与あたえる慈じ、及およびあわれんで苦くを除のぞく悲ひの心こころ。抜苦ばっく与楽よらく。
2. 慈いつくしみ、憐あわれむこと。
3. （「お慈悲じひでございます」などの形かたちで感動詞かんどうし的てきに）懇願こんがんの表現ひょうげん。