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正気 (しょうき, shouki) Japanese meaning: sanity | Kotomora
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He seemed to have lost his sanity.
Are you in your right mind, saying something like that?
Usage patterns 正しょう 気き に 戻もど る to regain one's senses/consciousness
He came back to his senses after having water thrown on him.
正しょう 気き を 保たも つ to keep one's sanity
It's hard to keep your sanity in such a terrifying situation.
〈 人ひと 〉 の 正しょう 気き を 疑うたが う to question someone's sanity
Everyone questioned his sanity because of his behavior.
Expressions 正しょう 気き を 失うしな う lose one's mind; go crazy; lose one's senses · lose consciousness Kanji 正 correct, justice, righteous Opposites 狂気 means madness or insanity, the direct opposite of 正気's sound, rational mind.
正気 means sanity, the direct opposite of 狂い's sense of madness.
正気 means being of sound mind, the direct opposite of the madness described by 発狂.
Written forms 正しょう 気き Usage 99%
Standard kanji spelling; the reading しょうき is unambiguous.
しょうき Usage 1%
Etymology Compound of 正 (correct, proper) and 気 (spirit, mind). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the combination naturally conveys a proper state of mind.
