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真っ直ぐ

まっすぐ

straight ahead, straightforward

Mnemonic

True straight, both characters saying it and neither of them bending. A mass まっす of road and not one bend in it. Down this way and keep going: まっすぐ.

Worth knowing

素直 すなお is straightforward about a person, honest and unresisting. 真っ直ぐ is a line, and it does an honest person as well.

Built from

truth, real
A lid over something set down straight and true underneath it. Nothing altered on the way.
straight, fix
目 an eye with a line running straight down out of it. Looking at a thing dead on.

Words sharing these kanji

photograph serious, sincere serious, earnest deep red truth, reality imitation, mimicry honest, upright honest, straightforward directly to repair, to cure, to alter immediately after

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