Kanji Detail for 貞 - "chaste, loyal, faithful"

貞

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
貞 means "chaste, loyal, faithful."
1. Chaste - Pure and virtuous; faithful.
2. Loyal - Steadfast in allegiance; faithful.
3. Righteous - Morally upright; proper.
4. Divination - The practice of seeking knowledge through signs.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

upright; chastity; constancy; righteousness

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

virtuous, chaste, pure; loyal

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

chaste

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

virtuous, chaste, pure; loyal

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Upright. Maintaining uprightness and being unshakable is called 貞. Such as 忠貞 (loyal and upright), 堅貞 (steadfast). Therefore in the past, women who did not lose their virtue were called 貞婦 (virtuous woman), 貞女 (chaste woman). | To divine. Asking about what is correct is called 貞. Such as in the Yijing: 貞吉 (divination auspicious), 貞厲 (divination severe).
Onyomi

joh(じょう)

tei(てい)
Kunyomi

tada.shii(ただしい)
Strokes

9 strokes
Radical

貝 (kai・kaihen・kogai)
Related Keywords
chaste loyal faithful pure virtuous righteous proper upright moral honest true steadfast constant devoted honorable noble integrity fidelity divination fortune