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
- —義和団the Boxers (China)
- —義勇兵volunteer soldier
- —義勇軍volunteer army
- —義務的compulsory; obligatory; mandatory
- —第二義secondary meaning; of secondary import
- —道義心moral sense
- —定義域domain (of a function)
- —徳義心moral sense
- —長談義long-winded speech; long, boring talk; tedious lecture
- —講義録lecture transcript
- —義務感sense of duty (obligation)
- —多義性ambiguity (of a word); polysemy
- —反義語antonym
- —多義的ambiguous; polysemous; equivocal; having many meanings
- —奥義書esoteric writings; Upanishad (sacred Hindu treatises)
- —彰義隊Shōgitai (group of former Tokugawa retainers opposed to the Meiji government and fought in the battle of Ueno)
- —猫義義Pseudobagrus ichikawai (species of catfish)
- —神義論theodicy
- —型定義type definition
- —多義語polysemous word; word with multiple meanings