是 — kanji meaning “just so”
是
just so, this, right, justice
- Meanings
- just so, this, right, justice
- On'yomi
- ゼ (ze)、シ (shi)
- Kun'yomi
- これ、この、ここ
- Name readings
- すなお、ただし、つな、ゆき、よし
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1045 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 72
- Chinese reading
- shì — Chinese character page
Words with 是
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 是非 | ぜひ zehi | certainly; without fail |
| 是正 | ぜせい zesei | correction; revision; redressing |
| 是認 | ぜにん zenin | approval; approbation; endorsement |
| 国是 | こくぜ kokuze | national policy |
| 党是 | とうぜ touze | party platform; party principles |
| 社是 | しゃぜ shaze | company policy |
| 彼是 | あれこれ arekore | this and that; this or that; one thing or another |
| 是々非々 | ぜぜひひ zezehihi | free and unbiased; fair and just; ruling or judging what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong |
| 色即是空 | しきそくぜくう shikisokuzekuu | form is emptiness; matter is void; all is vanity |
| 如是 | にょぜ nyoze | ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) |
| 空即是色 | くうそくぜしき kuusokuzeshiki | emptiness is form; illusion of the reality of matter |
| 是か非か | ぜかひか zekahika | right or wrong |
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