Translingual

Han character

誠 (radical 149 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口戈竹尸 (YRIHS), four-corner 0365₀, composition ⿰言成)

1. sincere, honest
2. true, real

References

• KangXi: page 1163, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35497
• Dae Jaweon: page 1628, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3963, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8AA0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 誠
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djeŋ) : semantic 言 ‎(“speech”) + phonetic 成 ‎(OC *djeŋ).

Pronunciation

Definitions

誠

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2. (Min Nan) very

Synonyms

• (very):

References

• “Entry #10084”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: じょう (jō)
• Kan’on: せい (sei)
• Kun: まこと (makoto), まことに (makotoni)

Compounds

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) まこと [màkótó] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ma̠ko̞to̞]

Noun

誠 ‎(hiragana まこと, romaji makoto)

1. sincerity

Proper noun

誠 ‎(hiragana まこと, romaji Makoto)

1. A male given name

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

誠 • ‎(seong) (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune-Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

誠 (thành, thiêng)

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