# 直 — Straight

Frequency rank 202 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 美 (Beauty), less common than 係 (Connection).

- On’yomi: ちょく、じき
- Kun’yomi: なお、ただ
- Radical: 目 Eye (Kangxi 109)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The bloodshot Eye tips off the bench and rolls the length of the hall, laying a wet red track behind it with not one bend in the whole run.

In words:

- 直る なおる — to be fixed,to be repaired
- 直す なおす — to fix,to repair
- 直 じき — earnestly,immediately,exactly

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