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悪

bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong

  • 11 strokes
  • Taught in grade 3 (kyōiku kanji)
  • No. 530 of 2,500 in newspapers

On'yomi

アク、オ

Kun'yomi

わる.い、わる-、あ.し、にく.い、-にく.い、ああ、いずくに、いずくんぞ、にく.む

A dot marks where the okurigana begin.

Stroke order

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Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.

Shapes inside it

The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 悪 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.

Written with 悪 10 words

Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.

JLPT N5 · 1 word

JLPT N3 · 4 words

JLPT N1 · 5 words

Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 悪.

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