如かず

如かず

Japanese

Kanji in this term
如
し Grade: S
kun’yomi

Verb

如かず (hiragana しかず, rōmaji shikazu)

1. negative of 如く
   1. to be worse than; be inferior to

      美 (び)を愛 (め)でるは醜 (しゅう)を憎 (にく)むに如 (し)かず。

      Bi o mederu wa shū o nikumu ni shikazu.

      To love beauty is worse than to hate ugliness.

See also

• 百 (ひゃく)聞 (ぶん)は一 (いっ)見 (けん)に如 (し)かず (hyakubun wa ikken ni shikazu, “to hear one hundred times is worse than to see one times.”)
• 三 (さん)十 (じゅう)六 (ろっ)計 (けい)逃 (に)げるに如 (し)かず (Sanjūrokkei nigeru ni shikazu, “everything else in the Thirty-Six Stratagems is inferior to fleeing”)