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What a Japanese person actually thinksChildlike. Not offensive, not wrong, just conspicuously simple — the register of a classroom poster about being nice to your classmates.
Meaning
- Literally
- strong + heart
- Actually
- Grammatical and comprehensible. It's also the exact phrasing a Japanese six-year-old would use — adjective plus noun, no idiom, no compression.
Scores
Naturalness●●●●●
Correct grammar. Adults writing about mental toughness would reach for a compound instead.
Coolness●●●●●
The hiragana い in the middle breaks up the visual block and makes it look like a sentence fragment.
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剛毅
gōki
fortitude; unbending firmness of characterThe adult, compound version of exactly this idea. Two dense characters, no hiragana.
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平常心
heijōshin
an unshaken mind under pressureIf 'strong heart' meant staying calm when it counts, this says it precisely.
On skin
強い心
Orientation: either
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