Illustration: On a residential street near a neighborhood police box, an officer returns a small purse to an elderly woman. A second officer stands beside the person who took it, whose open, empty hands and lowered gaze show that the theft has been stopped. The woman checks the purse with visible relief.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

正せい義ぎ

seigi

justice

Example sentences

  1. 最後さいごには正義せいぎは勝かつものだ。

    Justice will prevail in the end.

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  2. 正義せいぎのために戦たたかう。

    I fight in the cause of justice.

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  3. 力ちからは正義せいぎなり。

    Might is right.

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Kanji in 正義

  • 正correct; justiceOnセイ・ショウKunただしい・ただす・まさ
  • 義righteousness; justiceOnギ

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