是: Just So; This; RightKanji meaning, readings, and the words that use it

Words that use the on'yomi (ゼ・シ)

• 是正ぜせいcorrection; revision
• 是非ぜひcertainly; without fail
• 国是こくぜnational policy
• 党是とうぜparty platform; party principles
• 是か非かぜかひかright or wrong
• 是が非でもぜがひでもrightly or wrongly; by all possible means
• 是認ぜにんapproval
• 是非ともぜひともby all means; at all costs
• 是非是非ぜひぜひcertainly; by all means
• 今是昨非こんぜさくひcomplete reversal of values or ways of thinking (over time); What appeared wrong in the past now appears right
• 十如是じゅうにょぜten thusnesses (in Tendai)
• 如是にょぜ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra)
• 如是我聞にょぜがもんthus I hear (quote from the sutras); these ears have heard
• 定数是正ていすうぜせいreapportionment (of Diet seats)
• 実事求是じつじきゅうぜpractical search for the truth
• 店是てんぜshop policy
• 昨非今是さくひこんぜcomplete reversal of values or ways of thinking
• 是是非非ぜぜひひfree and unbiased; fair and just
• 是是非非主義ぜぜひひしゅぎprinciple of being fair and just; fair and unbiased policy (unbiassed)
• 是正措置ぜせいそちcorrective action (measure); rectification
• 是非ないぜひないunavoidable; inevitable
• 是非に及ばずぜひにおよばずunavoidable; inevitable
• 是非もないぜひもないunavoidable; inevitable
• 是非も無いぜひもないunavoidable; inevitable
• 是非共ぜひともby all means; at all costs
• 是非判断ぜひはんだんdiscrimination of right and wrong; distinguishing between right and wrong
• 是非善悪ぜひぜんあくrights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case)
• 是非曲直ぜひきょくちょくrights and wrongs (of a case); relative merits (of a case)
• 是非無いぜひないunavoidable; inevitable
• 校是こうぜschool motto
• 社是しゃぜcompany policy
• 空即是色くうそくぜしきemptiness is form; illusion of the reality of matter
• 色即是空しきそくぜくうform is emptiness; matter is void

Words that use a kun'yomi

• 今は是までいまはこれまでunavoidable; this is it
• 今は是迄いまはこれまでunavoidable; this is it
• 日日是好日にちにちこれこうじつevery day is a good day
• 是ここhere; this place
• 是っぱかしこれっぱかしtiny amount (degree, extent); paltry amount
• 是っぽっちこれっぽっちtiny amount (degree, extent); paltry amount
• 是っ切りこれっきりlast time (as of now); never again
• 是ほどこれほどso; so much
• 是丈これだけto this extent; to this degree
• 是位これくらいthis much; this amount
• 是切りこれきりlast time (as of now); never again
• 是式これしきtrifle; insignificant thing
• 是彼これかれthis and that
• 是程これほどso; so much
• 是等これらthese
• 是者これしゃgambler
• 是見よがしこれみよがしshowy; ostentatious
• 是迄これまでso far; up to now
• 過ちて改めざる是を過ちというあやまちてあらためざるこれをあやまちというto err and not change one's ways, this is what it is to err

Other readings

• 彼や是やあれやこれやthis and that
• 彼是あれこれthis and that; this or that
• 日々是好日にちにちこれこうじつevery day is a good day
• 是々非々ぜぜひひfree and unbiased; fair and just
• 是っ許りこれっぱかりtiny amount (degree, extent); paltry amount
• 是れこれthis; this one
• 是生滅法ぜしょうめっぽうthe law of arising and ceasing; the law of creation and destruction
• 是許りこればかりonly this; this much

Showing the 60 most common of 64 words. See them all in the graph.

Kanji that often appear with 是

• 非
• 今
• 正
• 如
• 彼
• 無
• 頑
• 昨
• 日
• 好
• 切