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誠

JLPT N1 SL6 13 strokes Frequency: #1128

Meanings

Sincerity, Admonish, Warn, Prohibit, Truth, Fidelity

Radicals

言

Decomposition

⿰言成

Etymology

Pictophonetic: speech

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 dot right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical bottom-to-top

6 corner bottom-to-top

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

9 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

11 hook right-to-left

12 diagonal right-to-left

13 dot right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

セイ sei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

まこと makoto

Words Using This Kanji

27 words total

Other (20 words)

sincerity

really

sincere

in all sincerity

in all sincerity

loyalty

insincerity

insincerity

truth

sincerity

sincerity

loyalty

sincerity

earnestness

to do with sincerity

loyalty

in all sincerity

Jōshōji sect (of Shin Buddhism)

忠誠を誓うちゅうせいをちかう

to pledge allegiance

至誠天に通ずしせいてんにつうず

sincerity can move heaven

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