結果
Meaning in Englishresult, consequence, outcome
Animated kanji stroke order
Related sentences
Word context
What it means
What does 結果 mean? It designates the outcome or final state produced by a process, action, or event. In everyday Japanese, it refers to the end product or data that follows an occurrence and is used across formal and informal contexts to describe findings, effects, or conclusions.
Main meanings
- Primary sense: the outcome or consequence of a sequence of actions or a process.
- In discourse: as a clause connector, 結果として and 結果的に mean 'as a result' or 'consequently'.
- Academic and practical contexts: presents the data, findings, or results of experiments, analyses, or decisions.
How to use it
Used in formal writing and everyday speech to refer to the outcome of actions, experiments, decisions, or plans; common phrases include 結果が出る, 結果として, 結果的に; in scientific or legal documents it introduces findings and outcomes.
Variants and close terms
- 成果（せいか, seika）
- 結末（けつまつ, ketsumatsu）
- 結果として（けっかとして, kekka toshite）
Composition
- 結: to bind, tie; to conclude
- 果: fruit, outcome
Etymology
結 + 果 form 結果; the reading in compounds shifts to けっか (kekka) through phonetic adjustment, with the sokuon indicating a geminated start.
Origin
Historical usage appears in classical Japanese with kanji borrowed from Chinese; it became common in administrative, scholarly, and literary writing from the Heian onward and remains widespread in modern Japanese.
Word class
Noun (名詞)