如かず

See also: 不如, 不若, and 不及

Japanese

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

Alternative spellings
不如不若若かず不及及かず

Verb

如(し)かず • (shikazu)

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.
  - c. 800, Han Yu, On Teaching(師說):
    
    是(こ)の故(ゆえ)に弟(てい)子(し)は必(かなら)ずしも師(し)に如(し)かずんばあらず、師(し)は必(かなら)ずしも弟(てい)子(し)より賢(けん)ならず。
    Kono yue ni teishi wa kanarazushimo shi ni shikazunba arazu, shi wa kanarazushimo teishi yori ken narazu.
    For this reason, apprentices do not have to be inferior to their masters; masters do not have to be more virtuous than their apprentices.

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”)

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