Buddhist compassion — giving joy and removing suffering. Genuinely deep.

What a Japanese person actually thinks
Serious and slightly religious. Reads as considered rather than sentimental — 慈悲 is a doctrinal term, not a greeting-card one.

Meaning

Literally: loving-kindness + sorrow-with
Actually: Mercy and compassion in the Buddhist sense: 慈 is giving happiness, 悲 is sharing others' pain. Together, the compassion of a bodhisattva.

Scores

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Established Buddhist term, understood generally.

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Two dense characters, real depth, and the two-halves etymology is genuinely worth explaining.

Watch out

Nothing embarrassing lurking in here.

On skin

慈悲

Orientation: vertical

Mincho, vertical.