Kanji1 / 8
直 kanji
straightaway, honesty, frankness, fix, repair
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
チョクジキジカ
Kun readings
ただちになおす-なおすなおるなおきすぐ
Words with 直
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —実直honest; steady
- —宿直night watch; night guard; night shift
- —直往going unhesitatingly forward
- —直覚intuition; insight
- —直結direct connection; direct link
- —直言straight talk; plain speaking; speaking frankly
- —直交orthogonal
- —直航direct voyage; direct service
- —直射direct fire; frontal fire; direct rays (of sunlight)
- —直出shooting straight out; growing straight down
- —直上above; going steadily upward
- —直情frankness; impulsiveness
- —直税direct tax
- —直送direct delivery
- —直腸rectum
- —直刀straight sword
- —直売direct selling; direct sales
- —直筆writing with an upright brush (using just the tip to create a narrower stroke); frank writing; writing the bare facts
- —直訳literal translation; direct translation
- —直立standing upright; standing straight; standing erect; rising perpendicularly; rising straight up; towering high