| 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) |
bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
530 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
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
- Korean:
- ag, o
Spanish
- malo
- incorrecto
- equivocado
- odio
- mal
Portuguese
- mal
- ruim
- falso
- mau
- errado
French
- mauvais
- vice
- vaurien
- faux
- mal
| 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 |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1138 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 童話 【ドウワ】 children's story, fairy tale
- 童謡 【ドウヨウ】 children's song, nursery rhyme
- 天童 【テンドウ】 cherub, gods disguised as children, children parading as cherubs
- 悪童 【アクドウ】 bad boy, naughty child, brat
Kun reading compounds
- 童 【わらべ】 child
- わらべ歌 【わらべうた】 children's song, nursery song
- 京童 【きょうわらべ】 Kyoto's children, Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext
- 小童 【こわっぱ】 boy, child, youth, brat
Readings
- Japanese names:
- ぱ
- Korean:
- dong
Spanish
- niño
- chiquillo
Portuguese
- juvenil
- criança
French
- jeune
- enfant
| 487 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 385 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 363 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1111 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3357 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 643 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 788 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1743 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 410 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 416 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1026 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1461 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2639 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1348 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1828 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 443 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 25775 | Morohashi |
| 2130 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4239 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 436 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 468 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 408 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 472 | 2001 Kanji |
| 5b7.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-2-10 | SKIP code |
| 2-5-7 | SKIP code |
| 0010.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-38-24 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7ae5 | Unicode hex code |