Kanji1 / 9
是 kanji
just so, this, right, justice
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ゼシ
Kun readings
これこのここ
Variant forms
昰Words with 是
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —如是我聞thus I hear (quote from the sutras); these ears have heard
- —定数是正reapportionment (of Diet seats)
- —是非曲直rights and wrongs (of a case); relative merits (of a case)
- —今是昨非complete reversal of values or ways of thinking (over time); What appeared wrong in the past now appears right; realizing and regretting the past errors of one's ways
- —是正措置corrective action (measure); rectification
- —是非判断discrimination of right and wrong; distinguishing between right and wrong
- —是非善悪rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety
- —是非無いunavoidable; inevitable
- —是生滅法the law of arising and ceasing; the law of creation and destruction
- —実事求是practical search for the truth
- —是とするto consider right; to think right; to approve (of); to give one's approval (to)
- —是が非でもrightly or wrongly; by all possible means; at all costs; at any cost; no matter what (happens); by fair means or foul
- —是非もないunavoidable; inevitable
- —是非もなしit can't be helped; there is no choice; inevitable; unavoidable
- —是是非非主義principle of being fair and just; fair and unbiased policy (unbiassed)
- —是非に及ばずunavoidable; inevitable; cannot be helped; of necessity
- —是否certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons
- —是非共by all means; at all costs; absolutely
- —是是非非free and unbiased; fair and just; ruling or judging what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong; calling spade a spade
- —頑是ないinnocent; helpless