如かず

Japanese

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

Verb

如(し)かず • (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”)