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
- —真空帯air pocket
- —真実性fidelity; truth; authenticity; credibility
- —真珠光pearl iridescence
- —真珠質mother-of-pearl
- —真珠色pearly white; pearl color; pearl grey
- —真珠層mother-of-pearl
- —真珠母mother-of-pearl
- —真善美the true, the good, and the beautiful
- —真面目one's true character; one's true self; one's true worth; serious; earnest
- —真珠貝pearl oyster (esp. Marten's pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata martensii)
- —写真機(photographic) camera
- —御真影imperial portrait; photograph of the incumbent Emperor and Empress distributed to schools between 1890 and the end of the Second World War; portrait or photo of a person of high rank
- —真分数proper fraction
- —真骨頂one's true worth; one's true self; what one is really made of
- —真の友true friend
- —真の闇pitch-darkness
- —真犯人the real criminal; true culprit
- —真実味truthfulness; credibility; sincerity; honesty; good faith; fidelity
- —真理値truth-value
- —真珠腫cholesteatoma; pearl tumor; pearl tumour