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賢

JLPT N2 16 strokes Frequency: #1159

Meanings

Intelligent, Wise, Wisdom, Cleverness

Radicals

貝

Decomposition

⿱臤貝

Etymology

Pictophonetic: money

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 16

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

3 vertical right-to-left

4 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

5 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 corner right-to-left

9 diagonal right-to-left

10 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

11 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

12 horizontal bottom-to-top

13 horizontal bottom-to-top

14 horizontal bottom-to-top

15 diagonal bottom-to-top

16 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ケン ken

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

かしこ kashiko

Words Using This Kanji

51 words total

Other (11 words)

post-coital clarity

wise answer

wise and virtuous

(your) perusal

女賢しくて牛売り損なうおんなさかしくてうしうりそこなう

even a clever woman is bound to mess up

五賢帝ごけんてい

the Five Good Emperors (of the Roman Empire; Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius)

賢女けんじょ

wise woman

大賢者だいけんじゃ

great sage

ハリーポッターと賢者の石ハリーポッターとけんじゃのいし

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (novel, film)

遺賢いけん

able men left out of office

悪賢いわるがしこい

cunning

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