Kanji1 / 14
徳 kanji
benevolence, virtue, goodness, commanding respect
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
トク
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
德悳Words with 徳
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3道徳Popularmorals; morality
- —悪徳Popularvice; immorality; corruption
- —淑徳Popularwomanly virtues
- —不徳Popularlack of virtue; immorality; vice; depravity; unworthiness
- —徳virtue; benevolence; profit; benefit; advantage
- —偉徳great virtue; outstanding virtue
- —威徳virtue and influence; virtue and authority
- —遺徳benefit from ancestors' virtue
- —一徳virtue
- —陰徳secret charity
- —乾徳emperor's virtue
- —五徳the five virtues (esp. in Confucianism); tripod; three or four-legged kettle stand; family crest in the shape of a three-legged kettle stand
- —公徳public morality; social morals; civic virtues
- —功徳merit; virtuous deed; act of merit; act of charity; divine reward (for virtuous deeds); grace (of the buddhas and gods); blessing; merit; meritum
- —才徳intelligence and virtue
- —三徳three cardinal virtues (wisdom, benevolence and valour (valor)); (having) three uses (e.g. a kitchen knife); (having) three advantages (e.g. a method); three qualities of nirvana (dharmakaya, prajna and moksha); three qualities of parinirvana; three virtues of Buddhahood (benevolence, wisdom and renunciation of klesha); three virtues of Buddhistic enlightenment; small pouch with separate pockets for a handkerchief, notes and toothpicks (popular during the Edo period)
- —俊徳great virtue
- —神徳divine virtues
- —仁徳benevolence; goodness
- —善徳virtues