賢

Meaning

賢 centers on sharp mental ability: being intelligent, wise, or clever. The given meanings all describe a person with good judgment and quick understanding.

• 賢いかしこい
  N3

  wise; clever; smart

• 賢けん

  intelligence; genius; scholarship; virtue

• 賢者けんじゃ

  wise person; sage

• 賢明けんめい
  N1

  wise; sensible; well-advised; intelligent; sagacious; prudent

• 賢人けんじん

  wise person; virtuous person; sage

• 小賢しいこざかしい

  clever; shrewd; crafty; cunning; pretentious; impertinent; insolent

• 大賢たいけん

  great sage

• 良妻賢母りょうさいけんぼ

  good wife and wise mother

• 普賢ふげん

  Samantabhadra (bodhisattva); Universal Compassion

• 賢母けんぼ

  wise mother

• 悪賢いわるがしこい
  N1

  cunning; crafty; wily; sly

• 賢所かしこどころ

  palace sanctuary

• ずる賢いずるがしこい
  N1

  devious; cunning; sly; crafty

• ハリーポッターと賢者の石ハリーポッターとけんじゃのいし

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (novel, film)

• 七賢しちけん

  the Seven Wise Men (of Confucius's Analects)

• 七賢人しちけんじん

  the Seven Wise Men (of Greece); the Seven Sages of Greece

• 五賢帝ごけんてい

  the Five Good Emperors (of the Roman Empire; Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius)

• 俊賢しゅんけん

  excellent wisdom

• 先賢せんけん

  ancient sage

• 前賢ぜんけん

  wise men of the past

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