良 — good, pleasing, skilled

よい良 good

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes quality

U+826F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #501 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1578 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

good
pleasing
skilled

word

よ yo Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

良(よ) い yoi good 仲(なか) 良(よ) く nakayoku on good terms 仲(なか) 良(よ) し nakayoshi close friend 気(き) 持(も) ち良(よ) い kimochiyoi pleasant 仲(なか) 良(よ) い nakayoi close

りょう ryou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

不(ふ) 良(りょう) furyou defective 改(かい) 良(りょう) kairyou improvement 良(りょう) ryou good 良(りょう) 心(しん) ryoushin conscience 良(りょう) 好(こう) ryoukou good 最(さい) 良(りょう) sairyou best 良(りょう) 質(しつ) ryoushitsu good quality 良(りょう) 識(しき) ryoushiki good sense

ら ra Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

奈(な) 良(ら) nara Nara

Appears in idioms

良薬は口に苦し諺

good medicine is bitter to the mouth

良妻賢母四字熟語

good, wife, intelligent, mother

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

艮 stopping

Used as component in (4)

ろう朗 melodious ろう郎 son むすめ娘 daughter なみ浪 wandering

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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