静心

Chinese[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 静心 – see 靜心 (“to have peace of mind; to meditate”). (This term is the simplified form of 靜心).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Alternative spelling
靜心 (kyūjitai)

Alternative spelling
靜心 (kyūjitai)

Usually spelled with

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rendaku (連濁), as shizu-gokoro.

静(しず)心(こころ) • (shizu-kokoro) ^{←しづこころ (sidukokoro)^?}
(alternative reading hiragana しずごころ, rōmaji shizu-gokoro, historical hiragana しづごころ)

calm mind, placid temperament
- 905, Kokin Wakashū, (book 2, poem 84; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 33)
  ひさかたの光(ひかり)のどけき春(はる)の日(ひ)にしづ心(ごころ)なく花(はな)の散(ち)るらむ
  hisakata no hikari nodokeki haru no hi ni shizu-gokoro naku hana no chiruran
  On a day in spring when the light throughout the sky warms with tranquility, why is it with unsettled heart that the cherry flowers fall?^[1]

^ Earl Roy Miner (1968) An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry (Monographs in language and literature), reprint edition, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 91