Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N4

530 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong

Kunyomi: わる.い わる- あ.し にく.い -にく.い ああ いずくに いずくんぞ にく.む

Onyomi: アク

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: こころ

Meaning: heart

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

魔(あくま)   devil

事(あくじ)   evil deed

(さいあく)   the worst

条件(あくじょうけん)   unfavorable conditions

化する(あっかする)   get worse [v.i.]

寒(おかん)   chill

い(わるい)   bad

口(わるくち)   slander, abuse [n.]

しからず(あしからず)   don't get me wrong, but ...

善しし(よしあし)   good or bad

Onyomi Examples

アク evil, wickedness, (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.), the bad guy

アクシツ malicious, vicious, malignant, underhanded, shoddy, inferior, poor-quality, second-rate

ガイアク harm, injury, evil (influence)

カイアク deterioration, changing for the worse

オカン chill, shakes, ague

アクチ impure blood

自己嫌 ジコケンオ self-hatred, self-abhorrence, self-loathing

コウオ likes and dislikes

Kunyomi Examples

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

い行い わるいおこない bad deed, evil deed

あし bad, evil

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, abominable, poor-looking, detestable, amazing, fantastic, admirable, lovely, wonderful

安んぞ いずくんぞ how, why

憎む にくむ to hate, to detest