meaning
good, positive, useful; friendly, peaceful; simple
see also
semantic space · lipamanka
pona is a biased word. It defines toki pona's design goals and names them as good. "pona" can be any good quality, but to truely understand pona, one must understand the reason behind each decision made when creating toki pona. This is why in toki pona it's so easy to call the language "toki pona"--it's the language that most closely fits the design goals, which are also the semantic space of the word "pona." you'll seldom see speakers who disagree with this and describe toki pona as not pona, but that's because most of the people who don't like toki pona's design don't speak it very well if at all.
ku translations
good100, appropriate90, nice88, acceptable81, OK80, fine80, proper80, simply80, quality79, valid75, pleasant73, friendly72, positive70, well70, benefit69, simple69, virtue67, alright64, correct60, fix57, repair57, advantage55, cool55, right (not wrong)55, fixed54, okay54, helpful53, kind53, validity53, ethical50, ideal50, improve50, merit50, peaceful50, successfully50, improvement47, correction46, fair45, grace45, ease43, heal43, successful43, supportive42, approval41, awesome41, adequate40, correctly40, effectiveness40, decent38, reasonable38, civil36, fairly36, peace36, plain36, properly36, terrific36, thanks36, welfare36, wonderful36, easy33, elementary33, enhance33, improved33, lovely33, natural33, resolve33, well-being33, worthy33, efficiency32, mercy32, beautiful31, courtesy31, effective31, elegant31, justice31, useful31, comfortable30, perfect29, reliability29, please28, relieve28, basic27, better27, free27, honest27, solve27, success26, easily25, excellent25, fascinating25, morality25, qualify25, sufficient25
pu verbatim
ADJECTIVE good, positive, useful; friendly, peaceful; simple
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Esperanto · bona ‘good’
by jan Sonja
sitelen pona
ponapictogram of a smiling mouth. compare ike
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
😌
sitelen Emosi
👍
ucsur
U+F1954