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What a Japanese person actually thinksReads a bit like a children's tokusatsu show, where the hero shouts about 正義 before transforming. Sincere but a little four-colour.
Meaning
- Literally
- correct + righteousness
- Actually
- Justice, righteousness.
Scores
Naturalness●●●●●
Common word.
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Fine characters. 正義の味方 ('ally of justice') is such a stock phrase that the word is hard to hear straight.
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義
gi
righteousnessDrop the 正 and it stops being a cartoon and becomes a bushidō virtue. Same idea, much better register.
On skin
正義
Orientation: vertical
Mincho.