Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N4

279 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: true, reality, Buddhist sect

Kunyomi: ま- まこと

Onyomi: シン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: eye

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

(しゃしん)   photograph

意(しんい)   real intention

実(しんじつ)   truth

偽(しんぎ)   truth or falsity

面目な(まじめな)   serious

っ直ぐ(まっすぐ)   straight

似する(まねする)   imitate

ん中(まんなか)   middle

上(まうえ)   just above

Onyomi Examples

シン truth, reality, genuineness, seriousness, logical truth, printed style writing, star performer

シンイ real intention, true motive, true meaning

組み写 クミシャシン composite or montage photograph

ハクシン realistic, true to life

Kunyomi Examples

just, right, due (east), pure, genuine, true, truth

まな beloved, dear

ほつま Hotsuma (script)

誠に まことに indeed, really, absolutely, truly, actually, very, quite

実しやか まことしやか plausible (but untrue), credible (e.g. of a lie), specious, truthy

嘘から出たまこと うそからでたまこと something intended as a lie or joke which (by chance) ends up being true, lie turned truth