Illustration: At a neighborhood park's picnic table, an adult deliberately crushes a child's handmade paper boat under one hand while looking directly at the child's distressed face. Several carefully folded boats and a shallow water basin show the harmless activity he has interrupted.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

悪あく

aku

evil

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは善ぜんと悪あくの区別くべつがわからない。

    He doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong.

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  2. 競争きょうそうそれ自体じたいは善ぜんでも悪あくでもない。

    Competition is neither good nor evil in itself.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 悪あくが勝かつということもあります。

    Evil sometimes wins.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 悪

  • 悪bad; viceOnアク・オKunわるい・わる-・あし

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