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賢 kanji
intelligent, wise, wisdom, cleverness
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ケン
Kun readings
かしこい
Variant forms
贒Words with 賢
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1賢明Popularwise; sensible; well-advised; intelligent; sagacious; prudent
- —賢人Popularwise person; virtuous person; sage; unrefined sake
- —賢母Popularwise mother
- —普賢PopularSamantabhadra (bodhisattva); Universal Compassion
- —賢intelligence; genius; scholarship; virtue
- —遺賢able men left out of office
- —賢才man of ability; gifted man
- —賢者wise person; sage
- —賢哲wise man
- —古賢ancient sage
- —七賢the Seven Wise Men (of Confucius's Analects); Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
- —俊賢excellent wisdom
- —先賢ancient sage
- —前賢wise men of the past
- —賢察discernment
- —聖賢saints and sages
- —諸賢(all of) you or them; various wise individuals; gentlemen
- —賢兄wise elder brother; polite reference to another's older brother, or to one's senior
- —賢主wise master
- —賢弟wise younger brother; polite reference to another's younger brother, or to one's junior