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Wading my way through [rūju](http://mojim.com/twy100852x45x8.htm), I found the
following phrase:

> 心慣じめない人にでも

[Google couldn't parse
it](https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/%E5%BF%83%E6%85%A3%E3%81%98%E3%82%81%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A7%E3%82%82),
so I tried doing so myself. `人にでも`, read `hito ni de mo`, is the antecedent of
the relative clause (`hito`) plus a few prepositions (particles in fact)
inserting it into the song. The rest seems to be a noun and a verb. However, I
was unable to find out how to read that, because taking `心慣` as a single noun
would give me `shinken` or `shinkan`, but JEDict has no such noun, nor has
[Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=%E5%BF%83%E6%85%A3&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go),
neither in English nor [in
Japanese](https://ja.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=%E5%BF%83%E6%85%A3&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go)
nor in
[Chinese](https://zh.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=%E5%BF%83%E6%85%A3&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go).
I even tried guessing its meaning by finding a Chinese noun with identical
spelling, but neither
[MDBG](http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E5%BF%83%E6%85%A3)
nor [Baidu
Baike](http://baike.baidu.com/search/none?word=%E5%BF%83%E6%83%AF&pn=0&rn=10&enc=utf8)
nor [the Chinese
Wikipedia](https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%E5%BF%83%E6%83%AF&title=Special%3A%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&go=%E5%89%8D%E5%BE%80)
nor [the Japanese
one](https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%E5%BF%83%E6%83%AF&title=Special%3A%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&go=%E5%89%8D%E5%BE%80)
know about it. JEDict says nothing if I try a verb starting with `心慣じ`, but
knows a verb `nareru` and `narasu` and `narawasu` and `narau` starting with
the second character which Google doesn't even transliterate. However, if the
verb way is the right way to go, then I have another problem, since `心` will
be read `kokoro` and the line would seem one syllable too long for the tune.

So what does this phrase mean, how is it pronounced, how should I parse that
`心慣じめない`?
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words readings
"Unfindable" character in song
Basically, you have been looking in all the wrong places. If it had anything
to do with Chinese, how would you explain the 「じめない」?

「心慣じめない」 should be the author's own way of writing 「心{こころ}馴染{なじ}めない」 for
whatever his/her aesthetic purpose might be. 「馴染む」 is more standard 「馴染まない」 is
only the negative form of it. Try looking up 「馴染む」, preferrably in a
monolingual dictionary. I will tell you what it means in a minute, but it is
more important that you look it up yourself as well.

「馴染む」 means "to get attached to".

「心馴染む」 means "to emotionally get attached to".

「心慣じめない人にでも」, therefore, would mean " ** _even to/for the people that I could
not emotionally become attached to_** ". You could shorten that as needed. I
am not going to try as English is not even my language.

If you are using song lyrics to learn Japanese, you would need to expect these
kinds of non-standard ways of writing words to pop up occasionally.

In this video around 02:17, they even write it as 「心馴染めない」:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSGuEp1uFC0>
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