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
- —悪質な広告malicious advertising
- —諸悪の根源root of all evil
- —悪たれ小僧bad boy; naughty boy
- —悪臭防止法Offensive Odor Control Law
- —悪魔の３歳terrifying threes; terrible threes; threenager phase; devilish threes
- —悪の道へ誘うto lead astray; to lure a person to evil ways
- —悪性リンパ腫malignant lymphoma
- —勧善懲悪小説(Edo-period) didactic novel or fiction
- —悪魔の３歳児threenager; child in the terrifying threes
- —邪悪になるなdon't be evil
- —悪玉ハッカーblack hat hacker
- —悪事千里を走るbad news travels quickly
- —悪夢から覚めるto come to one's senses
- —悪事千里を行くbad news travels fast
- —悪銭身に付かずeasy come, easy go; lightly comes, lightly goes; soon gotten soon spent
- —悪影響を及ぼすto affect adversely; to have a negative influence (on)
- —悪事身にとまるbad deeds punish themselves; you reap what you sow
- —ラプラスの悪魔Laplace's demon (hypothetical omniscient observer)
- —悪妻は百年の不作a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
- —悪法もまた法なりa law is a law, however undesirable it may be