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良 kanji
good, pleasing, skilled
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
リョウ
Kun readings
よい-よいいい-いい
Words with 良
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —不良債権処理disposal of bad loans
- —良心が咎めるto have a guilty conscience; to have (something) lie heavy on one's conscience
- —不良トラックdefective track
- —改良を加えるto improve upon; to make improvements to; to refine
- —不良行為少年juvenile delinquent
- —長期優良住宅long-life quality housing; long-term quality housing; non-temporary housing built for multigenerational use (meeting criteria such as durability, earthquake resistance, energy efficiency, etc.)
- —良薬口に苦しthe most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to; good medicine tastes bitter
- —再生不良性貧血aplastic anemia; aplastic anaemia
- —良薬は口に苦しthe most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to; good medicine tastes bitter
- —良性移動性舌炎benign migratory glossitis; geographic tongue
- —良心的兵役拒否conscientious objection
- —吸収不良症候群malabsorption syndrome
- —優良ドライバーexcellent driver; model driver; driver license holder who has not been involved in an accident for the past 5 years; receives preferential treatment when renewing their license
- —良心的兵役拒否者conscientious objector; CO
- —改良藤田スケールEnhanced Fujita scale (of tornado intensity); EF-scale
- —空想的社会改良家utopian
- —特定優良賃貸住宅government-subsidized high-quality rental apartment
- —家畜改良センターNational Livestock Breeding Center; NLBC
- —悪貨は良貨を駆逐するwhen there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives out good money (Gresham's Law)
- —良禽は木を択んで棲むa wise retainer chooses a great lord to serve; a wise bird chooses a good tree in which to roost