誠 — Chinese character
誠
chéng
honest, sincere, true; actually, really
- Pinyin
- chéng
- Radical
- 149 ⾔ (Speech)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 言 成
- Formation
- pictophonetic — speech; meaning component 言; sound component 成
- Simplified
- 诚
- Japanese
- 誠 as a kanji
誠 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 2 · Mencius 22 · Zhuangzi 16 · Great Learning 8 · Doctrine of the Mean 25
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 22
- Analects 12.10
- Analects 13.11
- Mencius 1A.6
- Mencius 1A.7
- Mencius 2A.1
- Mencius 2A.3
- Mencius 2B.12
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.