I sometimes see that a different kanji is used, but it has the same meaning.
For example, I found one that comes up quite a lot.
思い
想い
Is there a different nuance between the two?
Usually there is a difference of nuance, yes. However I can’t really tell you what it is in this case.
I use 思う in most situation that I think or feel something.
ex.
楽しい思いをする、思い出、そう思いますWhen I use 想う, I love someone or something strongly. 想うis used in limited situation.
ex
彼を想う、故郷を想う
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Thank you! I wish this kind of information was written in dictionaries, it would be very helpful
This sounds like a good case for a monolingual dictionary/thesaurus. Simplistic English glosses are going to fail to capture such nuance. Give me about 10 minutes and I’ll check one of mine to see what it says for these forms.
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Yeah, so looking it up, the kanji 想 always seems to be defined in some way using 思 but with references to 愛. In one case defined using 思うこと (thinking) with an example usage of 愛想 (fondness/affection). So that would align heavily with that HiNative post on the differences between the two forms.
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It typically is. Even in things like Jisho.
They don’t have little comments like that for everything, but they do for major ones.
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