Pity
Sympathy, Mercy, Compassion
noun
You have your feelings... these are the feelings humans have. When you ask someone to have feelings (Have feelings, KAY?? (け at the end)), you are asking them to pity or have mercy on you. Please! Have those human feelings that people have, like sympathy or pity. Don't kill me, man!
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you: Who are you begging to have pity on you? It's NASA. They have you hanging outside of the space station and they're going to push you towards earth where you'll burn up in the atmosphere. You don't want that, so you beg mission control for some pity. What will they do? You decide.
情けを知る
to fall in love for the first time, to learn the depths of human tenderness
情けをかける
to take pity on someone, to show compassion for someone
情けを持つ
to have compassion
情けがわく
pity wells up, sympathy wells up
情けがない
to lack compassion, to have no heart
情けがある
to have compassion
コウイチ子は、コウイチが情けのかけらもない男だと知って、別れました。
Koichiko broke up with Koichi after she learned Koichi is a man without even a shred of sympathy.
日本語には、「旅は道づれ世は情け」ということわざがあります。
In Japanese there is a proverb, "It is important for us to be compassionate toward each other as we travel through this world."
テストは70点が合格点だったが、私は69点だったのにも関わらずお情けで合格させてもらえた。
I needed a 70 to pass the test, and even though I got a 69, I was given a pity pass.