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1. Integrity: Sincere Honest and Faithful
3. Most Sincere Friend / Honest Friend / Real Friend / Best Friend
4. Honesty
6. Honesty
摯友 is one way to say best friend in Chinese.
The first character can mean “honest” or “most sincere.” The second character means “friend” or “friends” (plural forms work differently in Chinese).
See Also: Friendship | Soulmates
正直 or honesty is being truthful and sincere. It is important because it builds trust. When people are honest, they can be relied on not to lie, cheat or steal. Being honest means that you accept yourself as you are. When you are open and trustworthy, others can believe in you.
正直 is one of the 8 key concepts of Tang Soo Do.
Note: This entry is cross-listed as "integrity" because it also fits that definition.
Please note that the second Kanji sometimes has an alternate form in Japanese. Let us know if you want the alternate form shown to the right.
誠 means truth, faith, fidelity, sincerity, trust, and/or confidence.
As a single-character wall scroll, this suggests that you believe “honesty is the best policy,” as your personal philosophy.
This is also a virtue of the Samurai Warrior
See our page with just Code of the Samurai / Bushido here
信 is another character that expresses the idea of honesty.
It can also mean truth, faith, belief in, fidelity, sincerity, trust, and/or confidence.
Some have included this in the list for the Bushido, although “makoto” is probably more common/popular.
Note: In some contexts, this character can mean a letter (mail), news, or envoy. However, alone, it will generally be read with the honesty-meaning.
See our page with just Code of the Samurai / Bushido here
See Also: Loyalty Trustworthiness Trustworthy
信義 is a word often used to describe a person with an honest and loyal reputation.
Simply put, this applies to somebody you can trust (with your life).
In Chinese, this is often defined as good faith, honor, trust, and justice.
In Korean, this word means fidelity, truthfulness, or faithfulness.
In Japanese: faith, fidelity, and loyalty. It's also a Japanese male given name when pronounced “Nobuyoshi.”
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Integrity: Sincere Honest and Faithful | 誠實 誠実 | sei jitsu / seijitsu | ||
Honest Straightforward | 讜 谠 | dǎng / dang3 / dang | tang | |
Most Sincere Friend Honest Friend Real Friend Best Friend | 摯友 挚友 | zhì yǒu / zhi4 you3 / zhi you / zhiyou | chih yu / chihyu | |
Honesty | 正直 | shoujiki / shojiki | zhèng zhí zheng4 zhi2 zheng zhi zhengzhi | cheng chih chengchih |
Honesty | 誠 诚 | makoto | chéng / cheng2 / cheng | ch`eng / cheng |
Integrity Honesty | 清廉 | sei ren / seiren | qīng lián qing1 lian2 qing lian qinglian | ch`ing lien chinglien ching lien |
Honesty | 實 实 | shí / shi2 / shi | shih | |
Honesty Fidelity | 信 | shin | xìn / xin4 / xin | hsin |
Faithful Honorable Trustworthy Fidelity Loyalty | 信義 信义 | shingi | xìn yì / xin4 yi4 / xin yi / xinyi | hsin i / hsini |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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of art alive.
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