Jisho

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善

12 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening 口
Parts:
并 口 王 羊
Variants:
譱
virtuous, good, goodness
Kun:
よ.い、 い.い、 よ.く、 よし.とする
On:
ゼン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
765 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 善 【ゼン】 good, goodness, right, virtue
  • 善意 【ゼンイ】 virtuous mind, good intentions, good will, positive mindset, bona fides, good faith
  • 親善 【シンゼン】 friendship, goodwill, friendly relations, amity
  • 独善 【ドクゼン】 self-righteousness, self-justified

Kun reading compounds

  • 良い 【よい】 good, excellent, fine, nice, pleasant, agreeable, sufficient, enough, ready, prepared, profitable (deal, business offer, etc.), beneficial, OK, all right, fine, no problem, easy to ...
  • 善い行い 【よいおこない】 good deed
  • いい事 【いいこと】 good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
  • いい人 【いいひと】 good-natured person, good person, (one's) lover, boyfriend, girlfriend
  • 良く 【よく】 nicely, properly, well, skillfully, skilfully, frequently, often, I'm glad that you ..., thank you for ..., (you have) quite the nerve to, I don't know how you can ...
  • 善くも 【よくも】 how dare ..., how could ..., surprisingly, unexpectedly

Readings

Japanese names:
たる、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shan4
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • bondad
  • virtud

Portuguese

  • bom
  • virtuoso
  • bondade

French

  • bien
  • bonté
  • vertu
831 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
929 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
735 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
643 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
606 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
717 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
415 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1799 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1139 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1191 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
676 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
295 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2921 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1501 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2030 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1044 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3904 Morohashi
2325 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
859 New Nelson (John Haig)
1035 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1112 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
949 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
977 2001 Kanji
2o10.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-10 SKIP code
2-3-9 SKIP code
2-9-3 SKIP code
8060.5 Four corner code
8060.1 Four corner code
1-33-17 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5584 Unicode hex code

程

12 strokes
Radical:
grain 禾
Parts:
口 王 禾
extent, degree, law, formula, distance, limits, amount
Kun:
ほど、 -ほど
On:
テイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
514 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 程度 【テイド】 degree, amount, grade, standard, of the order of (following a number), about, approximately
  • 程朱学 【テイシュガク】 neo-Confucianism (based on the teaching of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi)
  • 規程 【キテイ】 official regulations, inner rules
  • 修士課程 【シュウシカテイ】 master's course

Kun reading compounds

  • 程 【ほど】 extent, degree, measure, limit, bounds, (span of) time, (a) distance, the state of, the status of, the condition of, about, around, approximately, or so, as much as ..., to the extent of ..., like ..., the more ... the more ...
  • 程なく 【ほどなく】 soon, before long, shortly thereafter
  • 成る程 【なるほど】 I see, that's right, indeed
  • 驚くほど 【おどろくほど】 to a surprising degree, to a remarkable extent, surprisingly, astonishingly, amazingly, alarmingly

Readings

Japanese names:
ほと
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cheng2
Korean:
jeong

Spanish

  • grado
  • extensión
  • distancia
  • ley
  • límites
  • limite

Portuguese

  • extensão
  • grau
  • lei
  • fórmula
  • distância
  • limites
  • quantia

French

  • ampleur
  • degré
  • loi
  • formule
  • distance
  • limites
  • quantité
  • bientôt
846 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
777 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
754 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
530 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3285 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
371 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
781 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1641 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
417 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
423 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
671 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1439 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1524 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
806 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1100 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
903 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25081P Morohashi
1190 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4144 New Nelson (John Haig)
894 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
960 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
276 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
761 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2272 2001 Kanji
5d7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-7 SKIP code
2691.4 Four corner code
1-36-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a0b Unicode hex code