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
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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
- —土佐弁Tosa dialect
- —制水弁water regulating valve; gate valve
- —弁蓋部pars opercularis; orbital part of inferior frontal gyrus
- —猛虎弁thick Osaka dialect (as supposedly spoken by Hanshin Tigers fans)
- —肛門弁anal valve; valvulae anales
- —皮膚弁flap; skin flap
- —買弁的comprador-like; being an underling to a foreign company to the detriment of one's own country
- —玉形弁globe valve; spherical valve; stop valve
- —論弁的discursive (i.e. proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than intuition)
- —絞り弁throttle valve
- —弁別閾difference threshold; differential limen
- —弁護側the defence; defence side
- —弁膜症valvular disease; valvular heart disease
- —重弁花double flower; double blossom
- —合弁花gamopetalous flower
- —ボス弁independent lawyer; lawyer with their own practice
- —のり弁nori bento; heavily redacted document
- —東京弁Tokyo dialect; Tokyo accent
- —多摩弁Tama dialect
- —止血弁hemostasis valve