誠
- Kanji
- 誠
- Level
- N2
- Meaning
- Sincerity, truth
- On'yomi
- セイ
- Kun'yomi
- まこと
- Strokes
- 13
- Common compounds
誠実 (せいじつ) sincere, 誠に (まことに) truly, 忠誠 (ちゅうせい) loyalty
- Memory hook
"Sincerity" combines "speech" (言) and "become" (成), meaning words that "become" true or genuinely expressed.