Kanji1 / 16
壁 kanji
wall, lining (stomach), fence
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ヘキ
Kun readings
かべ
Words with 壁
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —岩壁画rock painting; cave painting; pictograph
- —防波壁seawall; tsunami wall
- —分離壁separation wall (esp. the West Bank barrier); separation barrier
- —胸壁筋thoracic wall muscle; muscles of the thoracic wall
- —金城鉄壁impregnable castle (walls); impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable
- —近所合壁immediate neighborhood; immediate neighbourhood
- —関税障壁tariff barrier
- —断崖絶壁precipitous cliff; sheer precipice; critical situation
- —貿易障壁trade barrier
- —参入障壁barriers to entry
- —腹壁膿瘍abdominal wall abscess
- —腹壁反射abdominal wall reflex
- —厚壁細胞sclerenchyma cell
- —面壁九年facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple)
- —壁立千仞precipitous cliff of great height, metaphor for absolute nature of Buddhist truth
- —洞窟壁画cave painting
- —圧力隔壁pressure bulkhead
- —非関税障壁non-tariff barrier; NTB
- —長壁式採炭longwall mining
- —赤壁の戦いBattle of Red Cliffs (208 CE)