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
- —保守主義conservatism
- —放任主義principle of laissez-faire
- —民本主義politics of the people (democratic theory of Sakuzō Yoshino, 1878-1933)
- —唯美主義aestheticism; estheticism
- —理想主義idealism
- —義太夫節gidayū ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater)
- —組合主義trade unionism
- —功利主義utilitarianism
- —文治主義governing by law and reason rather than by military force
- —完全主義perfectionism
- —官能主義sensualism
- —懐疑主義skepticism; scepticism
- —反戦主義pacifism
- —拝金主義mammonism
- —破壊主義destructionism
- —感傷主義sentimentalism
- —急進主義radicalism
- —禁欲主義asceticism; stoicism
- —客観主義objectivism
- —同音異義homophony (having the same pronunciation as another word but a different meaning); homonymy