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’
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
sitelen pona
ponapictogram of a smiling mouth. compare ike
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
😌
sitelen Emosi
👍
ucsur
U+F1954