Character · Actions
立
おもいたった omoitattaたたず tatazuたたぬ tatanuどくりつ dokuritsu
stand
Composition
Origin
Pictogram of a person standing, feet planted on the ground line.
In the thoughts
- 思い立ったomoitattahaving resolved
- 立たずtatazudoes not stand
- 立たぬtatanudoes not rise
- 独立dokuritsuindependence
- 立て板tateitaupright board
- 立つtatsustand out
Proverbs carrying this character
- 009 思い立ったが吉日 The best day to begin is the day you think of it.
- 027 後悔先に立たず Regret never comes first.
- 171 火のない所に煙は立たぬ No smoke rises where there is no fire.
- 203 独立独歩 Standing on one's own, walking at one's own pace.
- 260 立て板に水 Water on an upright board.
- 294 智に働けば角が立つ。情に棹させば流される。意地を通せば窮屈だ。 Act on reason, and you grow sharp-cornered. Pole along feeling, and you are swept away. Force your will, and you are cramped. Decidedly, the human world is hard to live in.