Word Meaning 百聞は一見にしかず

ひゃくぶんはいっけんにしかず hyakubun ha ikkennishikazu

百聞は一見にしかず is read as ひゃくぶんはいっけんにしかず (hyakubun ha ikkennishikazu) and means seeing is believing.

Meaning

English

seeing is believing
one eye-witness is better than many hearsays
a picture is worth a thousand words

Reading

Kana

ひゃくぶんはいっけんにしかず

Romaji

hyakubun ha ikkennishikazu

Writing Variants

百聞は一見に如かず ひゃくぶんはいっけんにしかず hyakubun ha ikken ni shikazu

Stroke Sequence

9 Characters • 42 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N5 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Proverb ✓ Rank 115022 Priority S

Related Vocabulary

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百聞

ひゃくぶん

hearing many times

百人一首

ひゃくにんいっしゅ

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu

百慮一得

ひゃくりょいっとく

even a fool may sometimes give good counsel

百人一首かるた

ひゃくにんいっしゅかるた

Hyakunin Isshu karuta

百害あって一利なし

ひゃくがいあっていちりなし

all pain, no gain

百一物

ひゃくいちもつ

monk's allowed daily necessities (clothes, food, etc.)

百日の説法屁一つ

ひゃくにちのせっぽうへひとつ

single mistake which ruins all one's hard work

百姓一揆

ひゃくしょういっき

peasant uprising (Edo period)

見聞

けんぶん

information

一見

いっけん

first meeting

見聞き

みきき

information

聞見

ぶんけん

information

Example Sentences

百聞は一見にしかず。

ひゃくぶんはいっけんにしかず。

Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times.

百聞は一見にしかず。

To see is to believe.

百聞は一見にしかずと言いますからね。

They say that seeing is believing.