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
- —賢良方正wise and virtuous; good and able men
- —竹林の七賢Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians
- —賢者タイムpost-coital clarity; period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly
- —賢者モードpost-coital clarity; period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly
- —普賢延命菩薩image of the Samantabhadra of long life (with either two or twenty arms, usu. on a white elephant)
- —ハリーポッターと賢者の石Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (novel, film)