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
- —道徳劇morality play
- —道徳性morality
- —徳政令debt cancellation order issued by the Emperor or the Shogun (during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods)
- —歳徳神goddess of (lucky) directions
- —武徳殿building on the greater palace grounds used by the emperor for viewing horse racing, horseback archery, etc.; martial arts practice hall at Heian Shrine (est. in 1895 by the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, now defunct)
- —道徳経Tao Te Ching (classic Chinese text by Lao Tzu); Daodejing
- —功徳蔵one's accumulated merit; treasure house of merit; Amithaba (Buddha)
- —頌徳碑monument (commemorating a virtuous deed)
- —背徳感sense of guilty pleasure; feeling of naughtiness
- —背徳的immoral; illicit; unethical
- —徳山線Tokuyama Line
- —徳島大The University of Tokushima (abbr)
- —交通道徳traffic ethics
- —公衆道徳public morals
- —商業道徳business morality
- —徳の高いvirtuous; respectable
- —二重道徳double standard of morality
- —道徳教育moral education
- —徳を行うto practice virtue; to practise virtue
- —政治道徳political morality