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
- —弁髪pigtail; queue; cue
- —弁別distinguishing; distinction; discrimination; telling apart
- —弁膜valve (of the heart and the veins)
- —弁理management; disposition; handling
- —佞弁flattery; cajolery; adulation
- —訥弁slowness of speech; awkwardness of speech
- —詭弁sophistry; sophism
- —弁駁refutation; contradiction; rebuttal; disproof; disputation
- —能弁eloquence; oratory
- —弁天Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)
- —自弁paying one's own expenses
- —支弁payment; defrayal; disbursement
- —論弁argument
- —達弁eloquence
- —快弁eloquence
- —陳弁defense (of oneself); defence; explanation
- —腰弁lunchbox hanging from one's waist; low-paid office worker
- —通弁interpretation (i.e. oral translation); interpreter
- —宏弁fluency; eloquence
- —旗弁standard (type of flower); banner; vexillum