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
- —陰弁慶lion at home but weakling elsewhere
- —関東弁Kantō dialect
- —再抗弁pleading
- —代弁者spokesperson; speaker (for someone); mouthpiece; voice (e.g. for the ordinary citizen)
- —単弁花single-petaled flower
- —答弁者respondent
- —内弁慶someone haughty and boastful at home but meek and reserved outside; being a lion at home and a mouse abroad
- —能弁家orator
- —弁じるto speak; to talk; to argue; to manage; to dispose of; to carry through; to distinguish; to discriminate
- —弁ずるto manage; to dispose of; to carry through; to distinguish; to discriminate
- —弁慶蟹Sesarmops intermedium (species of grapsoid crab)
- —弁慶縞checks; plaid; checked pattern
- —弁慶草orpine (any plant of family Crassulaceae, esp. the garden stonecrop, Hylotelephium erythrostictum)
- —弁護者proponent; defender; advocate
- —弁護団team of lawyers; defense team; defence team; litigation team
- —弁護料lawyer's fee
- —弁財天Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, art, wealth and water
- —弁償金reparation; indemnity; compensation; reimbursement
- —弁証学apologetics
- —弁証法dialectic; dialectics