諦 means “give up, truth”

あきらめる · akirameru

Also: clarity, abandon

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

あきらめる, つまびらか, まこと

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

テイ, タイ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 16 strokes

The story

Words (言) with the weight of an emperor (帝): a final verdict, no appeal. In Buddhism 諦 is truth, as in the Four Noble Truths, and 諦める, to give up, is popularly traced to an old verb for making clear: seeing things as they are and letting go.

Used in 諦める (akirameru, to give up), 諦め (akirame, resignation), and 諦観 (teikan, resigned acceptance)

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