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
- N3是非Popularcertainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons
- N1是正Popularcorrection; revision; redressing; rectifying
- N1是非ともPopularby all means; at all costs; absolutely
- —国是Popularnational policy
- —是認Popularapproval; approbation; endorsement
- —是非是非Popularcertainly; by all means
- —是righteousness; justice; right
- —社是company policy
- —党是party platform; party principles
- —店是shop policy
- —如是("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra); ten thusnesses (in Tendai)
- —頑是distinction between right and wrong
- —校是school motto
- —十如是ten thusnesses (in Tendai)
- —色即是空form is emptiness; matter is void; all is vanity
- —是か非かright or wrong
- —是々非々free and unbiased; fair and just; ruling or judging what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong; calling spade a spade
- —頑是無いinnocent; helpless
- —空即是色emptiness is form; illusion of the reality of matter
- —昨非今是complete reversal of values or ways of thinking