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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
- —同義性synonymy; synonymity
- —同義名synonymous name; synonym
- —類義性quasi-synonymy; quasi-synonymity
- —談義所Buddhist seminary
- —釈義学exegesis; explanation of a text; commentary on a text; study of biblical interpretation
- —没義道brutality; inhumanity
- —談義本dangibon; type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)
- —講義室lecture hall; lecture room
- —意義素sememe; semanteme; irreducible unit of meaning
- —蝋義歯trial denture; wax denture
- —左義長burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year)
- —道義的moral
- —名義上nominal; in name only; titular
- —信義則fair and equitable principle
- —正義漢just person; man of justice; righteous person; upright person
- —義父母parents-in-law
- —理義字kanji composed entirely of duplicate radicals
- —義務化making obligatory; making compulsory
- —義実家spouse's parents' home; in-law's home
- —義祖母grandmother-in-law