Kanji1 / 13
愚 kanji
foolish, folly, absurdity, stupid
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
グ
Kun readings
おろか
Words with 愚
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —愚臣foolish retainer; I; me
- —愚老I; me
- —愚公Yu Gong (main character in the 4th century BC Chinese fable "The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains"); Yúgōng; Yukong
- —万愚節April Fools' Day
- —愚図るto grumble; to be unsettled; to grizzle
- —愚痴るto grumble; to gripe; to complain
- —愚痴話tedious complaints; continual moaning
- —愚集みguzumi; move that forms an empty triangle deliberately
- —愚集むto play a guzumi move; to play an empty triangle deliberately
- —愚管抄Gukanshō (1220 historical treatise by Jien); A Selection of the Opinions of a Fool
- —愚民政策obscurantist policy; keep-the-people-ignorant policy
- —愚図つくto dawdle; to waste time doing nothing in particular; to fret; to sulk; to complain; to rain on and off
- —衆愚政治mobocracy; mob rule; ochlocracy
- —愚問愚答silly questions and silly answers; silly dialogue
- —愚兄賢弟a foolish older brother and a smart younger
- —愚者一得even a fool may sometimes give good counsel
- —凡庸愚昧ordinary and ignorant; mediocre and stupid
- —無知愚昧unenlightened; in the darkest ignorance; not knowing from A to B
- —愚の骨頂the height of folly; sheer stupidity
- —愚痴の闇the darkness of ignorance