Interest

"Interest" in Japanese

利子

rishi

(finance: price of credit)

利息

risoku

(finance: price of credit)

利益

rieki

(involvement in or link with financial, business, or other undertaking)

興味

kyōmi

(great attention and concern from someone)

興味

kyōmi

(attention that is given to or received from someone or something)

趣味

shumi

(something one is interested in)

関心

kanshin

(great attention and concern from someone)

関心

kanshin

(attention that is given to or received from someone or something)

関心

kanshin

(something one is interested in)

興味を引く

kyōmi o hiku

(to attract attention or concern)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.