Illustration: In a Japanese apartment kitchen, a child stands beside a broken ceramic bowl and its scattered orange segments. Facing the parent who has just entered, the child points to their own chest and holds out the sleeve still caught on the tablecloth that pulled the bowl down.

JLPT N3na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

正しょう直じき

shoujiki

honest, frank

Example sentences

  1. その事実じじつは彼かれの正直しょうじきさを証明しょうめいしている。

    The fact proves his honesty.

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  2. 彼かれは正直しょうじきな男おとこだ。

    He is an honest man.

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  3. 私わたしは正直しょうじきです。

    I’m an honest person.

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Kanji in 正直

  • 正correct; justiceOnセイ・ショウKunただしい・ただす・まさ
  • 直fix; repairOnチョク・ジキ・ジカKunただちに・なおす・なおる

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