kanji-a-day:745/2000JLPT: N1School Grade: 6th (11 years old)This character is a combination of 言 wor
kanji-a-day:745/2000JLPT: N1School Grade: 6th (11 years old)This character is a combination of 言 words and 成 consist/become/make. Here 成 is a phonetic element expressing “pile up” and “duplicate, while also lending connotations of “being properly formed.” It once referred to “words which properly duplicated one’s heart/feelings,” or “words that contained sincerity.” It has since come to mean sincerity in a more general sense. -- source link