正しい

Etymology 1
Derived from.

First appears in 858 in the, the Japanese rendering of the Chinese text . Used primarily in contexts, with almost no usage in  or kana contexts until after the.

Adjective

 * 1)  true, straight, unwarped, unskewed, proper
 * 2)  correct, right, true

Etymology 2
Derived from.

First appears in an 830 copy of the  in a  context, and later phonetically in the 905  work.

Still in use in the early 1600s, then apparently falling into partial disuse. The full adjective form masashii is no longer included in some dictionaries. Persists in dialect in the modern language, and as adverbial form.

Adjective

 * 1)  factual, true, correct, accurate
 * 2)  genuine, real
 * 3)  actual, real, certain