賢
賢 — hyeon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 어질 현
- Romanization
- hyeon
- English
- virtuous, worthy, good; able
- Mandarin
- xián
- Japanese on'yomi
- ケン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- かしこ.い
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,159 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 貝 (154, 8 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8CE2
How 賢 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 賢 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 臤, 貝.
Korean example words with 賢
- 현덕賢德 Korean gloss: 어진 덕행
- 현사賢士 Korean gloss: 어진 선비
- 현신賢臣 Korean gloss: 어진 신하
- 현왕賢王 Korean gloss: 어진 임금
- 현처賢妻 Korean gloss: 어진 아내
- 현모賢母 Korean gloss: 어진 어머니
- 현부賢婦 Korean gloss: 현명한 부인
- 현책賢策 Korean gloss: 현명한 계책
- 고현古賢 Korean gloss: 옛 현인(賢人)
- 현형賢兄 Korean gloss: ‘친구’의 높임말
- 구현求賢 Korean gloss: 현인(賢人)을 구함
- 현군賢君 Korean gloss: 어질고 현명한 임금
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 賢
- 普賢ふげん Samantabhadra (bodhisattva); Universal Compassion
- 賢人けんじん wise person; virtuous person; sage
- 賢明けんめい wise; sensible; well-advised
- 賢いかしこい wise; clever; smart
- 賢所かしこどころ palace sanctuary
- 賢母けんぼ wise mother
- 賢者けんじゃ wise person; sage
- 悪賢いわるがしこい cunning; crafty; wily
- 賢けん intelligence; genius; scholarship
- 遺賢いけん able men left out of office
- 賢才けんさい man of ability; gifted man
- 賢哲けんてつ wise man
Other hanja read “현”
Other hanja with radical 貝
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