実

音読おんよみ: ジツ

訓読くんよみ: み・みの

画数かくすう: 8

部首ぶしゅ: 宀(うかんむり)

Meaning

Reality / Truth / Fruit / Seed

  • Basic forms
  • 実る — to ripen; to bear fruit; to come to fruition / base form
  • 実ります — (it) ripens; bears fruit / masu form
  • 実った — ripened; bore fruit; came true / ta form
  • 実って — ripening; bear fruit and … / te-form
  • 実らない — does not bear fruit; does not succeed / negative form
  • 実れば — if it bears fruit; if it ripens / conditional
  • 実れ — bear fruit! ripen! / imperative
  • Other common forms
  • 夢が実る — a dream comes true
  • 努力が実った — efforts paid off
  • 実り始める — to begin to ripen; start to bear fruit
  • 実りの多い一年 — a fruitful year (full of results)
  • More
  • 実りそうだ — seems like it will bear fruit; looks promising
  • なかなか実らない — doesn’t bear fruit easily; is slow to pay off

実る(みのる) is a godan verb ending in る. The stem behaves like 実り, giving forms such as 実る・実ります・実って・実った. It is used both literally for crops and fruit ripening, and metaphorically when efforts, plans, or dreams “bear fruit” or succeed.

  • じつは — in fact
  • 実際じっさい — in practice, actually
  • 実験じっけん — experiment
  • 実力じつりょく — ability, true strength
  • 実用じつよう — practical use

The radical 宀 (うかんむり) symbolizes a roof, suggesting shelter or containment. When combined with meanings like “fruit” or “truth,” the character 実 implies something maturing or becoming real within — like a seed developing under protection or the truth being revealed from within.

このはなしじつ面白おもしろいです。
This story is truly interesting.

りました。
The tree has borne fruit.

情
Creates
実情じつじょう — actual circumstances, reality
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