Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N4

143 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: correct, justice, righteous, 10**40

Kunyomi: ただ.しい ただ.す まさ まさ.に

Onyomi: セイ ショウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: とめる

Meaning: stop

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

解(せいかい)   correct answer

義(せいぎ)   justice

確な(せいかくな)   accurate

常な(せいじょうな)   normal

な(ふせいな)   unjust

する(しゅうせいする)   revise

気(しょうき)   sanity

しい(ただしい)   correct [adj.]

す(ただす)   straighten

に(まさに)   surely

Onyomi Examples

セイ (logical) true, regular, 10^40, ten thousand undecillion, original, positive, greater than zero, thesis (in dialectics)

セイカイ correct, right, correct interpretation (answer, solution)

検事 ケンジセイ chief public prosecutor

テキセイ reasonable, suitable

ショウ exactly, precisely, correct, right, true, greater (of equal court ranks), upper, senior, director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryō period), chief

ショウガツ New Year (esp. first three days), first month of the year, January

タイショウ Taishō era (1912.7.30-1926.12.25), Taisho era

ガショウ A Happy New Year!

Kunyomi Examples

しい ただしい right, correct, proper, righteous, just, honest, truthful, lawful

しい行い ただしいおこない conducting oneself properly, right conduct, doing the right thing

ただす to correct, to rectify, to reform, to amend, to redress, to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.), to adjust

糺す ただす to ascertain, to confirm, to verify, to make sure of

まさ exact, precise

まさに exactly, surely, certainly, just, right then, just then, at that moment, just (about to), on the verge (of doing or happening), duly, naturally

まさに exactly, surely, certainly, just, right then, just then, at that moment, just (about to), on the verge (of doing or happening), duly, naturally