Japanese word
故意
こい
In your course · Chapter 42
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- B2
- Frequency
- No. 1,249 in the course corpus
Meanings
- intent; deliberate
- intent
- intention
- bad faith
- mens rea (guilty mind)
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 故
- On reading:
- コ
- Kun reading:
- ふる.い、もと、ゆえ
- Meanings:
- happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently
- 意
- On reading:
- イ
- Meanings:
- idea, mind, heart, taste, thought, desire, care, liking
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))