- 国内 — domestic / within the country
- 案内 — guidance / showing around
- 内心 — innermost thoughts
- 内科 — internal medicine
- 内側 — inner side
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- 内気 — shyness, introversion
- 内定 — tentative offer
- 内面 — inner side, interior
- 内臓 — internal organs
- 内燃機関 — internal combustion engine
内 combines the radical for “enter” (入) with a cover or building. It originally referred to entering a space — like going into a house — and gradually came to mean “inside,” “within,” or “the inner part.”
