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Kanji Detail for 良 - "good, excellent, virtuous"

良

  • Meaning

    良 means "good, excellent, virtuous."

    1. Good - Excellent; fine.

    2. Virtuous - Moral; upright.

    3. Husband - A spouse (archaic).

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    good; pleasing; skilled

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    good, virtuous, respectable

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    good; very; very much

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    good, virtuous, respectable

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

    Good. When nature is pure and beautiful and never changes, it is called 良. Such as 忠良 (loyal and good), 賢良 (virtuous). A person's moral sense is called 天良. Colloquially called 良心 (conscience). Also, anciently people were divided by occupation into base and good. Such as those with clean family backgrounds were called 良家子弟 (children of good families). A prostitute leaving the trade is called 從良 (returning to decent life). | Good quality of objects is also called 良. Such as saying 良楛 (good and bad). | Deep. Such as in correspondence saying 懸系良殷 (deeply attached). Also, quite a long time is called 良久. | A particle. Meaning "indeed." Such as saying 良有以也 (indeed there is a reason). Seen in (Letter of Emperor Wen of Wei).
  • Onyomitip

    ryoh(りょう) りょう

  • Kunyomitip

    yaya(やま) やま

    yo.i(よい) よい

  • Strokestip

    7 strokes

  • Radicaltip

    艮 (ushitora・kon・konzukuri・nezukuri)

  • Related Keywords
    good excellent fine virtuous moral upright kind gentle honest sincere loyal faithful competent skilled husband spouse truly indeed quite somewhat

Sentences including 良

  • What a good teacher mr hirayama is !

  • It's fine today.

  • To talk with a lot of people is good for health.

  • A good idea occurred to him.

  • I know it well enough.

  • I feel better today.

  • I hope that she'll get well soon.

  • The place i live in is very good for your health.

  • We shall leave tomorrow , weather permitting.

  • Smoking is bad for your health.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

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