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
- —大徳great virtue; virtuous priest; priest; rich person
- —帝徳emperor's virtue
- —徳用economical; economy size; family size (esp. of packaged food)
- —徳利sake bottle; tall and slender bottle with a narrow mouth made from ceramic, metal or glass that can be used for sake, shoyu or rice vinegar; turtleneck (sweater); non-swimmer; person who cannot swim
- —背徳corruption; immorality; lapse from virtue; fall from virtue
- —美徳virtue
- —武徳martial arts
- —民徳national morality
- —余徳influence of great virtue; influence of ancestors
- —人徳natural virtue; personal virtue
- —彰徳public praise; making another's virtues well-known
- —福徳fortune; happiness and prosperity
- —報徳repayment of someone's kindness; showing one's gratitude; moral requital
- —徳行virtuous act or deeds; goodness
- —徳義morals; morality; sincerity
- —有徳virtuous; rich
- —明徳virtue; Meitoku era (of the Northern Court; 1390.3.26-1392.10.5); Meitoku era (of reunified Japan; 1392.10.5-1394.7.5)
- —学徳learning and virtue
- —盛徳splendid virtue
- —婦徳woman's virtues