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
- —買い弁store-bought bento
- —南部弁Nambu dialect (spoken in western Aomori)
- —排出弁exhaust valve
- —弁論部debating club
- —調整弁control valve; regulating valve; something that maintains equilibrium or balance
- —調節弁control valve
- —制御弁control valve
- —三動弁triple valve; three-state valve
- —仕切弁gate valve; sluice valve
- —雄弁術oratory; art of public speaking
- —パカ弁(incompetent) lawyer who merely discloses the IP addresses of people who make defamatory comments online (without pursuing further legal action)
- —ビニ弁convenience store lunch box
- —弁別的distinctive
- —ロケ弁boxed lunch eaten at a film or TV shoot
- —三河弁Mikawa dialect (spoken in the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture, former Mikawa Province)
- —日弁連Japan Federation of Bar Associations (abbr)
- —思弁的speculative; contemplative; theoretical; abstract
- —弁慶格子checked pattern; plaid
- —弁護士会bar association
- —弁論大会speech contest