誠

Meaning

誠 centers on inner truthfulness and its outward expression: sincerity, fidelity, and honest truth. The admonish/warn/prohibit senses are less common and may reflect a separate usage where truthful words serve as a warning.

• 誠まこと
  N1

  truth; reality; fact

• 誠実せいじつ
  N1

  sincere; honest; faithful

• 誠にまことに
  N1

  really; truly; very; extremely; exceedingly; sincerely

• 忠誠ちゅうせい

  loyalty; sincerity; allegiance; fidelity; integrity

• 誠意せいい
  N1

  sincerity; good faith

• 不誠実ふせいじつ

  insincerity; dishonesty; untruthfulness; bad faith

• 誠心せいしん

  sincerity

• 至誠しせい

  sincerity; devotion

• 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

• 不誠意ふせいい

  insincerity; dishonesty; untruthfulness; bad faith

• 信義誠実の原則しんぎせいじつのげんそく

  principle of good faith

• 巧詐は拙誠に如かずこうさはせっせいにしかず

  better shoddy and sincere than clever and deceptive

• 忠誠を尽くすちゅうせいをつくす

  to be loyal to; to serve; to offer allegiance

• 忠誠を誓うちゅうせいをちかう

  to pledge allegiance; to swear an oath of allegiance; to take an oath of allegiance

• 忠誠心ちゅうせいしん

  loyalty; faithfulness

• 熱誠ねっせい

  earnestness

• 至誠天に通ずしせいてんにつうず

  sincerity can move heaven

• 至誠館大学しせいかんだいがく

  Shiseikan Hall University

• 誠にもってまことにもって

  in all sincerity; truthfully; honestly

• 誠を尽くすまことをつくす

  to do with sincerity

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