Fair and Selfless 公平無私
kōhei mushi4 characters28 strokes
公平無私 (kōhei mushi) means treating everyone fairly and making the right decision without letting your own gain or personal likes and dislikes get in the way.
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Meaning 意味
What 公平無私 means
A Japanese four-character idiom, yojijukugo, read kōhei mushi.
LiterallyFair and even, without self.
公平無私 means not favoring anyone and deciding things rightly, leaving out your own interests, likes and dislikes. It is an important attitude for anyone who leads a group.
“As the new team captain, I want to be kōhei mushi and treat every player the same.”
When people write it in Japan. It is a fitting motto when you take on a leadership role, such as team captain or the head of a group.
Japanese children know every kanji here by 6th grade.
How to write it 書き方
Brush tips for 公平無私
Semi-cursive script (gyōsho)
- In 無, the four dots at the bottom flow from left to right, each ending in a thin flick that rises toward the next dot.
- In 平, write the long horizontal big and rising to the right. Bring the vertical straight down through the center and thin the tip as you lift off.
- In 公, open the two strokes at the top wide, like the character 八, with the left one short and the right one long.
Stroke order
Follow the vermilion stroke, frame by frame. Shown in regular script. Semi-cursive follows the same order, with strokes joined.
Stroke order data: KanjiVG by Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
How to practice 練習
Trace first, then copy
- PrintPrint both pages at actual size, on US Letter or A4. Page 1 is the model. Page 2 is the tracing sheet.
- TraceTrace the outlines with a brush pen. Or lay thin hanshi paper over the page and trace with brush and ink.
- CopySet the model beside your paper and copy it stroke by stroke. Look at the model more than at your own paper.
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