Japanese Kanji
是ze
just so · this · right
Secondary school · JLPT N1 · 9 strokes
Just so, this, right, justice.
是 is part of the secondary school jōyō kanji — the full set of characters used in everyday Japanese. In the JLPT proficiency test it appears at N1 (advanced) level. With 9 strokes, this character appears in numerous compound words throughout written Japanese.
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