Kanji1 / 16
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
- —賢妻wise (house)wife
- —賢愚the wise and the foolish
- —賢慮a wise idea; polite reference to another's consideration
- —大賢great sage
- —賢臣wise and able retainer
- —賢答wise answer; intelligent reply
- —賢覧(your) perusal; (your) inspection
- —賢女wise woman; clever woman
- —賢王wise ruler; sage king; intelligent and virtuous monarch
- —賢帝wise emperor; sagacious monarch
- —賢夫人wise wife
- —七賢人the Seven Wise Men (of Greece); the Seven Sages of Greece
- —五賢帝the Five Good Emperors (of the Roman Empire; Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius)
- —大賢者great sage
- —良妻賢母good wife and wise mother
- —愚兄賢弟a foolish older brother and a smart younger
- —聖人賢者person of lofty virtue and great wisdom
- —普賢菩薩Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva); Fugen; Puxian
- —観普賢経Samantabhadra Contemplation Sutra
- —賢者の石philosopher's stone