First opened Thursday, December 18, 2025
誠
まこと
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
truth, faith, fidelity
Taken apart
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Written with 誠
In a sentence
嘘から出た誠。
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
手八丁口八丁の彼だけど、誠がないのが玉に瑕だね。
He works fast and is very articulate but his insincerity is his biggest defect.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.