Kanji1 / 5
弁 kanji
valve, petal, braid, speech, dialect, discrimination, dispose of, distinguish, conical cap
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ベンヘン
Kun readings
かんむりわきまえるわけるはなびらあらそう
Variant forms
瓣辧辨辮辯Words with 弁
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —ホカホカ弁当hot bento
- —合いの子弁当children's lunch box of cooked rice and a Western-style side dish (popular late Meiji and Taisho periods)
- —弁慶の立往生situation in which one can move neither forward nor backward; Benkei's last stand
- —お弁当付けてwith rice stuck on one's face
- —多々ますます弁ずthe busier you are, the better you work; the more, the better
- —多多ますます弁ずthe busier you are, the better you work; the more, the better