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So I'm looking to express the great inspiration some people feel that guides
admirable creations. This kind of thing.

I found 霊感 but I have very little experience with kanjis and I don't want to
choose something that will look weird for someone who actually understands it.

By the way this word will be used with no context. To explain it entirely I'll
be gifting someone with a painting with these kanjis in it.
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meaning words kanji
霊感 meaning and if it is the best choice to express inspiration
霊感 without no context primarily refers to a supernatural ability to feel or
see ghosts, spirits or such. If a native speaker saw a painting that just says
霊感, they would first wonder if it's related to occultism or exorcism. You need
enough context to use 霊感 as a word meaning _inspiration_ (and such a usage is
not very common, anyway).

The common words for _inspiration_ , when it refers to a sudden great idea you
get from nowhere or from someone, include:

  * インスピレーション (transliteration of _inspiration_ )
  * 閃き (lit. "flash")
  * 着想 (lit. "conception", "motive")
  * 刺激 (lit. "stimuli")

It's hard to choose the best one. インスピレーション is the commonest and safest in
ordinary Japanese sentences, but you may not like it since it's a katakana
loanword. 着想 and 刺激 are kanji words, but IMO they are not very "fancy" words.
閃き sounds fancy enough (to me) but it's not a pure kanji word because it's a
form of the verb [閃く](https://jisho.org/word/%E9%96%83%E3%81%8F).
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