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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
- —羽弁web; vane; vexillum
- —弁官Oversight Department (under the Department of State of the ritsuryō system)
- —弁事clerical work
- —弁才large Japanese junk
- —弁説dialectic demonstration; display of skill in explanation
- —鰓弁gill lamella; branchial lamella; gill filament
- —早弁eating one's lunch box before lunchtime (e.g. of a student)
- —皮弁skin flap; flap
- —買弁intermediary in China conducting business with foreign countries; comprador; compradore; person working for a foreign company to the detriment of their own country
- —明弁discernment; clear analysis; clear expression; distinguished speech
- —離弁choripetalous; polypetalous; schizopetalous
- —塾弁lunch box brought to cram school; cram school lunch box
- —用弁finishing one's business; settling an affair
- —重弁double-flowered
- —弘弁big debate
- —花弁petal
- —唇弁labellum; lip; velum (in molluscs, medusae, etc.)
- —空弁boxed lunch sold at airports
- —速弁boxed lunch sold at highway rest areas
- —町弁town lawyer; community lawyer; local lawyer