01
悪い
わるい
bad
Meanings
- bad
- vice
- rascal
- false
- evil
- wrong
Readings
Onyomi
- アク
- オ
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
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Useful words
02
悪口
わるぐち
bad-mouthing
03
悪夢
あくむ
nightmare
04
最悪
さいあく
worst
05
悪魔
あくま
devil
06
意地悪
いじわる
mean
Compare Kanji
01善Pair96%virtuous, goodGood and evil make a direct moral contrast: 善 answers the darkness of 悪.02良Pair87%good, pleasing良 gives the plain “good” side, a clean everyday opposite for 悪.03罪Meaning82%guilt, sinCrime in 罪 belongs to the harmful moral field opened by 悪.04罰Meaning74%penalty, punishmentPunishment in 罰 follows the wrongdoing that 悪 can suggest.05酷Meaning70%cruel, severeCruelty in 酷 is a harsher shade of the badness in 悪.06偽Meaning65%falsehood, lieFalsehood in 偽 connects with the wrong or dishonest side of 悪.