Shin’i Homonyms

真意 (shin’i: real intention, true motive, true meaning)     true + meaning
深意 (shin’i: deep or profound meaning)     deep + meaning
心意 (shin’i: mind)     heart + mind

Jim Breen doesn’t provide sample sentences for 深意 or 心意, but the following gives a good sense of how one might use 真意 (real intention, true motive, true meaning):

彼女の言葉の真意は何だろうか。
Kanojo no kotoba no shin’i wa nan darō ka.
I wonder what she means by those words?

彼女 (kanojo: she)     he + woman
言葉 (kotoba: word)     word + fragment

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