Kanji1 / 13
義 kanji
righteousness, justice, morality, honor, loyalty, meaning
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 義
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —義祖父grandfather-in-law
- —義両親parents-in-law
- —音義説theory that each sound in Japanese is associated with a certain meaning
- —教義学dogmatics; dogmatic theology
- —名義抄Myōgishō (abbr. of Ruijū Myōgishō, a Japanese-Chinese character dictionary from the late Heian Period)
- —修証義Shushogi (compilation of Great Master Dogen's ideas, put together by the Soto Zen school)
- —塩野義Shionogi (pharmaceutical company)
- —忠義顔feigned loyalty; expression of loyalty; show of loyalty
- —愛国主義nationalism; patriotism
- —愛他主義altruism
- —印象主義impressionism
- —厭世主義pessimism
- —遠隔講義remote lecture
- —画一主義standardization; standardisation
- —快楽主義hedonism
- —楽天主義optimism
- —官僚主義bureaucracy
- —観念主義German idealism
- —儀式主義ritualism; ceremonialism
- —虚無主義nihilism