Onyomi: シツ, ジツ · Kunyomi: まこと, み, みち.る, みの, みの.る · Meanings: fruit, nut, reality, seed, truth
Kanji for fruit, nut, reality, seed, truth
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実 is formed from the roof radical 宀 on the top, and a bottom component that represents the substance or content inside. The roof suggests an enclosed space, and the bottom component emphasizes what is contained within. Together, they express the idea of the essential substance or what is inside a space. From this, 実 came to mean truth, reality, fruit, or substance.
実 shows what is contained inside, meaning truth, reality, or substance.
実 is used when referring to the real content or substance of something. Remember 実 as the true, actual, or essential part.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 実 | じつ | truth, reality | common JLPT-N1 Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |
| 実 | み | fruit, nut | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 誠 | まこと | truth, reality, fact | common JLPT-N1 Noun |
| 実 | さね | seed (of a fruit), pit, pip, stone | Noun |
| 正身 | そうじみ | the real person, said person | Noun |
| 実験 | じっけん | experiment, experimentation | common JLPT-N3 Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 実業家 | じつぎょうか | businessperson, businessman, businesswoman, entrepreneur, captain of industry | common JLPT-N1 Noun |
| 実践 | じっせん | practice, putting into practice, implementation | common JLPT-N1 Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 実行 | じっこう | execution (e.g. of a plan), carrying out, (putting into) practice, action, implementation, fulfillment, realization | common JLPT-N3 Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 実際 | じっさい | reality, actuality, truth, fact, actual conditions | common JLPT-N3 Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |