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
- —悪徳商法unscrupulous business practices; fraudulent business practices; crooked business practices
- —因習道徳conventional morality; conventional morals
- —実践道徳practical ethics (morality)
- —仁義道徳humanity and justice; benevolence and righteousness
- —人倫道徳ethics and morality
- —知徳円満having both (wide) knowledge and (high) virtue
- —知徳兼備having both (wide) knowledge and (high) virtue
- —知徳合一the unity of knowledge and virtue
- —道徳堅固of strict morals (moral principles); highly moral
- —道徳退廃moral decadence (decline, corruption)
- —徳政一揆uprising demanding debt cancellation orders (Muromachi period)
- —福徳円満being perfectly happy and prosperous; wealth and happiness
- —三徳包丁all-purpose kitchen knife; santoku knife
- —君主道徳Herrenmoral (master morality, as a philosophical concept of Nietzsche)
- —奴隷道徳Sklavenmoral (slave morality, as a philosophical concept of Nietzsche)
- —徳川時代Tokugawa period (i.e. the Edo period, 1603-1867)
- —徳川幕府Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867); Edo shogunate
- —文徳実録Montoku Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
- —道徳法則moral law
- —道徳主義moralism