Kanji1 / 12
備 kanji
equip, provision, preparation
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ビ
Kun readings
そなえるそなわるつぶさに
Variant forms
僃Words with 備
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —備品equipment; fixtures; furnishings; fittings; furniture; supplies
- —備砲armament
- —備忘reminder
- —武備military preparation; armaments; defenses; defences
- —兵備war preparations
- —防備defense; defence; defensive preparations
- —具備possessing (what is required); having; fulfilling (conditions); satisfying (requisites); being endowed with
- —後備rear guard; second reserve
- —常備(always) having ready; having on hand; being provided with; standing; permanent; regular; reserve
- —戦備preparations for war
- —増備adding equipment (esp. rolling stock); increase
- —必備indispensable; essential; necessary; must-have
- —備前Bizen (former province located in the southeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
- —吉備Kibi (former province located in present-day Okayama and parts of Hiroshima, Hyōgo and Kagawa prefectures; later split into Bizen, Bitchu and Bingo provinces)
- —備州Bishū (the three former provinces of Bizen, Bitchū and Bingo)
- —三備Sanbi (the three former provinces of Bizen, Bitchū and Bingo)
- —下準備preparations; preliminary arrangements; spade work; mise en place; groundwork
- —再軍備rearmament
- —準備金reserve fund
- —準備中in preparation; (shop) not yet open for business