The kanji 悪: meaning, readings and stroke order
悪
- Meaning
- bad
- On reading
- アク aku、オ o
- Kun reading
- わる(い) warui
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 心 heart
- Level
- Level 3 · grade 3
- Old form
- 惡
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- xấu, ác (ác)
- Japanese
- わるい。
- Korean
- 나쁘다 (악·오)
- Chinese
- 坏、不好 (恶)
Readings, words and example sentences
アク aku · on reading
悪人
bad guy, villain
話の 中の 悪人が つかまりました。
The bad guy in the story was caught.
オ o · on reading · less common
悪寒
chills
悪寒が して 学校を 休みました。
I had the chills, so I stayed home from school.
わる(い) warui · kun reading
悪い
bad, not good
今日は 体の 調子が 悪いです。
I do not feel well today.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.