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方 kanji
direction, person, alternative
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
ホウ
Kun readings
かた-かた-がた
Words with 方
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —斜方形rhombus; rhomb; diamond (shape)
- —方向角direction angle
- —方法的procedural; methodical
- —処方薬prescription drug
- —後世方Edo-period school of Chinese medicine based on post-Jin and Yuan teachings
- —古医方Edo-period school of Chinese medicine based on pre-Jin and Yuan teachings
- —四方竹Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo); Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
- —方言学dialectology
- —地方名geographical name; local name
- —方位神God of directions (generic terms referring to many different Gods)
- —縦方向longitudinal direction; vertical direction; portrait orientation
- —一方向one direction; unidirectional; non-interactive
- —新方言new dialect; new regional dialect
- —新方式new method; new system
- —方言量number of dialectal versions of a word
- —無方針not having a plan; aimlessness; having no definite plan
- —方形骨quadrate bone
- —藍方石haüyne; hauynite
- —地方史local history
- —等方性isotropy
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