ChiramiN4 kanji · 5 strokes
正 means correct
一 a line · 止 foot
正Memory trick
A foot (止) stopping right at the line (一): correct.
Memory trick: a picture to help you remember the kanji, not its history.
Meaning and readings
- Meanings
- correct, justice, righteous
- JLPT level
- N4
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 1 in Japan
Japanese (kunyomi) ただしい tadashii
ただしい (tadashii) is the Japanese word for this kanji. You use it when the kanji stands alone or has kana after it. Dictionaries call this the kun reading.
Other Japanese readings: ただす tadasu, まさ masa, まさに masani
From Chinese (onyomi) セイ sei
セイ (sei) came from Chinese with the character. You mostly hear it in words made of several kanji. Dictionaries call this the on reading.
Other readings from Chinese: ショウ shou
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Common word
正しい ただしい · tadashii
right, correct
Built from
- 一 one
- 止 stop, foot
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止 Used in 41 kanji
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What does 正 mean?
Right: 正 means correct.Not quite: 正 means correct.In 正しい, which reading does 正 use?
Right. 正しい is read ただしい (tadashii): 正 takes ただ, its Japanese reading, with しい after it.Not quite. 正しい is read ただしい (tadashii): 正 takes ただ, its Japanese reading, with しい after it.