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善 kanji
virtuous, good, goodness
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
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On readings
ゼン
Kun readings
よいいいよくよしとする
Variant forms
譱Words with 善
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —善哉well done!; bravo!; zenzai; red bean soup made with azuki beans
- —善事good thing; good deed
- —善処dealing appropriately (with a situation); taking proper measures; handling (an issue) carefully; making the best of (a bad bargain)
- —善書beautiful calligraphy; calligrapher; good book
- —善心virtue; moral sense; conscience
- —善人good person; virtuous person; good-natured person; gullible person
- —善性innate goodness of man
- —善政good government
- —善導proper guidance
- —善道path of virtue; righteousness
- —善徳virtues
- —善美the good and the beautiful
- —善用good use
- —善霊spirit of goodness
- —追善mass for the dead; Buddhist service held on the anniversary of someone's death
- —独善self-righteousness; self-justified
- —不善evil; sin; vice; mischief
- —万善all good works; all good deeds
- —至善the highest good
- —小善a small kindness; minor good deed
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