誠
誠 — seong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 정성 성
- Romanization
- seong
- English
- sincere, honest; true, real
- Mandarin
- chéng
- Japanese on'yomi
- セイ, ジョウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- まこと
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 6
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,128 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 言 (149, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8AA0
Parts that make up 誠
How 誠 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 誠 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 言, 成.
Korean example words with 誠
- 건성虔誠 Korean gloss: 경건한 정성
- 열성熱誠 Korean gloss: 열렬한 정성
- 성의誠意 Korean gloss: 정성스러운 뜻
- 성실誠實 Korean gloss: 정성스럽고 참됨
- 성심誠心 Korean gloss: 정성스러운 마음
- 성출誠出 Korean gloss: 성의껏 내어놓음
- 성금誠金 Korean gloss: 정성으로 내는 돈
- 혈성血誠 Korean gloss: 진심에서 우러나오는 정성
- 성력誠力 Korean gloss: 정성과 힘을 아울러 이르는 말
- 적성赤誠 Korean gloss: 마음에서 우러나오는 참된 정성
- 성효誠孝 Korean gloss: 마음을 다하여 부모를 섬기는 정성
- 성신誠臣 Korean gloss: 충성으로 군주(君主)를 섬기는 신하
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 誠
- 誠にまことに really; truly; very
- 誠意せいい sincerity; good faith
- 誠実せいじつ sincere; honest; faithful
- 忠誠ちゅうせい loyalty; sincerity; allegiance
- 誠心せいしん sincerity
- 至誠しせい sincerity; devotion
- 誠まこと truth; reality; fact
- 誠にありがとうございますまことにありがとうございます thank you very much
- 誠忠せいちゅう loyalty
- 赤誠せきせい sincerity; true heart; devotion
- 熱誠ねっせい earnestness
- 誠情せいじょう sincerity
Other hanja read “성”
Other hanja with radical 言
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences