Kanji1 / 11
悪 kanji
bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
アクオ
Kun readings
わるいわる-あしにくい-にくいああいずくにいずくんぞにくむ
Variant forms
惡Words with 悪
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —悪漢小説picaresque novel
- —悪魔主義satanism; devil worship
- —悪性水腫malignant edema; malignant oedema
- —悪性貧血pernicious anemia; pernicious anaemia
- —悪衣悪食shabby clothes and plain foods
- —環境悪化environmental degradation
- —悪事千里bad news traveling fast; ill news spreading like wildfire
- —極悪非道inhuman; heinous; atrocious
- —悪逆非道heinous; treacherous; atrocious; diabolic; fiendish; inhuman
- —悪行三昧committing every evil; being given to evil ways; following the path of evil
- —悪徳商法unscrupulous business practices; fraudulent business practices; crooked business practices
- —悪人正機The evil persons are the right object of Amida's salvation; The evil persons have the unique opportunity to go to heaven
- —悪木盗泉a virtuous person should not commit an act that offends their moral principles no matter how hard pressed they may be
- —悪魔調伏exorcism; praying down evil spirits
- —悪鬼羅刹man-eating fiend
- —偽悪趣味propensity to put oneself in as bad a light as possible; being prone to act bad
- —急転悪化suddenly turning for the worse; sudden deterioration
- —正邪善悪right and wrong; right or wrong
- —是非善悪rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety
- —善悪不二good and evil are but two faces of the same coin