Kanji1 / 10
真 kanji
true, reality, Buddhist sect
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
シン
Kun readings
まま-まこと
Variant forms
眞Words with 真
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —真率honesty; sincerity; frankness
- —真鍮brass
- —天真naivete
- —迫真realistic; true to life
- —真諦ultimate truth; essence
- —真箇real; true
- —真跡true autograph
- —真書printed style (of writing Chinese characters); square style; block style; standard style; book or document that is factual in nature
- —真皮dermis; corium; cutis; true skin
- —真果true fruit (i.e. one that forms from the ovary only)
- —真宗Shin Buddhism
- —真直straightness
- —真作authentic work (as opposed to a fake)
- —真祖(in fiction) person changed into a vampire by magic
- —真円perfect circle
- —検真verification of the authenticity of a document (e.g. by seal or handwriting)
- —真壁wall with exposed timber pillars
- —真説true theory; true teachings
- —女真Jurchen people
- —真花fertile flower (on a flowering plant which also has infertile flowers, e.g. hydrangeas)