Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
Variants:
bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
530 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 悪 【アク】 evil, wickedness, (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.), the bad guy
  • 悪質 【アクシツ】 malicious, vicious, malignant, underhanded, shoddy, inferior, poor-quality, second-rate
  • 害悪 【ガイアク】 harm, injury, evil (influence)
  • 改悪 【カイアク】 changing (something) for the worse, disimprovement, deterioration
  • 悪寒 【オカン】 chill, shakes, ague
  • 悪血 【アクチ】 impure blood
  • 自己嫌悪 【ジコケンオ】 self-hatred, self-abhorrence, self-loathing
  • 好悪 【コウオ】 likes and dislikes

Kun reading compounds

  • 悪い 【わるい】 bad, poor, undesirable, poor (quality), inferior, insufficient, evil, sinful, ugly, not beautiful, at fault, to blame, in the wrong, bad (at doing something), unprofitable, unbeneficial, sorry, (my) bad, unforgivable
  • 悪い行い 【わるいおこない】 bad deed, evil deed
  • 悪し 【あし】 bad, evil
  • 悪しからず 【あしからず】 don't get me wrong, but ..., I'm sorry
  • 難い 【にくい】 difficult to ..., hard to ...
  • 憎い 【にくい】 hateful, detestable, abominable, vexing, provoking, amazing, fantastic, admirable, lovely, wonderful
  • 安んぞ 【いずくんぞ】 how, why
  • 憎む 【にくむ】 to hate, to detest

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
e4, e3, wu4
Korean:
ag, o

Spanish

  • malo
  • incorrecto
  • equivocado
  • odio
  • mal

Portuguese

  • mal
  • ruim
  • falso
  • mau
  • errado

French

  • mauvais
  • vice
  • vaurien
  • faux
  • mal
152 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
241 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
222 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
504 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
62 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
804 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
175 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1483A Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.14 Japanese for Busy People
304 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
304 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
114 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
785 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3413 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1758 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2393 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1828 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10717 Morohashi
2745 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1873 New Nelson (John Haig)
1810 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1951 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
295 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
369 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3258 2001 Kanji
4k7.17 The Kanji Dictionary
2-7-4 SKIP code
1033.1 Four corner code
1-16-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
60aa Unicode hex code

18 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
penal, chastise, punish, discipline
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1303 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 懲戒 【チョウカイ】 discipline, punishment, reprimand
  • 懲役 【チョウエキ】 penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor (hard labour)
  • 膺懲 【ヨウチョウ】 punishment (of an enemy), chastisement
  • 暴支膺懲 【ボウシヨウチョウ】 punish savage China

Kun reading compounds

  • 懲りる 【こりる】 to learn by experience, to learn one's lesson, to learn the hard way, to be discouraged (by), to have enough (of), to be disgusted (with)
  • 懲らす 【こらす】 to chastise, to punish, to discipline
  • 懲らしめる 【こらしめる】 to chastise, to punish, to discipline

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cheng2
Korean:
jing

Spanish

  • pena
  • castigo
  • castigar
  • disciplinar

Portuguese

  • penal
  • castigar
  • punir
  • disciplinar

French

  • punition
  • pénal
  • châtiment
  • sanction
1599 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1626 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1785 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1510 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1327 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1421 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1510 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1703 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
805 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3623 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1853 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2526 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
897 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11399P Morohashi
2910 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2006 New Nelson (John Haig)
888 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
953 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1893 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2058 2001 Kanji
4k14.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-14-4 SKIP code
2833.4 Four corner code
1-36-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
61f2 Unicode hex code