"看板に偽りなし" meaning in Japanese

See 看板に偽りなし in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

Forms: 看板に偽りなし [canonical] (ruby: (かん), (ばん), (いつわ)), kanban ni itsuwari nashi [romanization]
Etymology: Literally, "the signboard has [tells] no lies." Head templates: {{ja-phrase|かんばん に いつわり なし|head=看板に偽りなし}} 看(かん)板(ばん)に偽(いつわ)りなし • (kanban ni itsuwari nashi)
  1. there is no discrepancy between external appearance and true substance Related terms: you can't judge a book by its cover [English], clothes don't make the man [English]

Download JSON data for 看板に偽りなし meaning in Japanese (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, \"the signboard has [tells] no lies.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "看板に偽りなし",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "看",
          "かん"
        ],
        [
          "板",
          "ばん"
        ],
        [
          "偽",
          "いつわ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kanban ni itsuwari nashi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "かんばん に いつわり なし",
        "head": "看板に偽りなし"
      },
      "expansion": "看(かん)板(ばん)に偽(いつわ)りなし • (kanban ni itsuwari nashi)",
      "name": "ja-phrase"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "there is no discrepancy between external appearance and true substance"
      ],
      "id": "en-看板に偽りなし-ja-phrase-hRRgpP7Y",
      "links": [
        [
          "discrepancy",
          "discrepancy"
        ],
        [
          "external",
          "external"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true"
        ],
        [
          "substance",
          "substance"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "English"
          ],
          "word": "you can't judge a book by its cover"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "English"
          ],
          "word": "clothes don't make the man"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "看板に偽りなし"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, \"the signboard has [tells] no lies.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "看板に偽りなし",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "看",
          "かん"
        ],
        [
          "板",
          "ばん"
        ],
        [
          "偽",
          "いつわ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kanban ni itsuwari nashi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "かんばん に いつわり なし",
        "head": "看板に偽りなし"
      },
      "expansion": "看(かん)板(ばん)に偽(いつわ)りなし • (kanban ni itsuwari nashi)",
      "name": "ja-phrase"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "English"
      ],
      "word": "you can't judge a book by its cover"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "English"
      ],
      "word": "clothes don't make the man"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese phrases",
        "Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms written with three Han script characters"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "there is no discrepancy between external appearance and true substance"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "discrepancy",
          "discrepancy"
        ],
        [
          "external",
          "external"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true"
        ],
        [
          "substance",
          "substance"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "看板に偽りなし"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.