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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
- —局方品drug included in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia
- —蘭方医doctor practising Western medicine (during the Edo period)
- —地方札regional pattern of (traditional Japanese) playing cards (such as hanafuda); local playing cards
- —方書きdocument containing instructions; prescription
- —地方風local wind
- —大方針broad policy; overriding principle
- —地方民person from the provinces; person living outside major metropolitan areas
- —横方向lateral direction; horizontal direction; transverse direction; landscape orientation
- —地方銀regional bank
- —下方婚hypogamy; marriage into a lower social or financial class
- —北方話Northern Chinese; Mandarin
- —上方婚hypergamy; marriage into a higher social or financial class
- —犬公方Dog Shogun (nickname of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi)
- —方法学methodology
- —方面軍area army (of the Imperial Japanese Army); field army
- —最後方hindmost; outermost; farthest back
- —平方数square number
- —方向幕destination sign (e.g. on a train); destination indicator; rollsign
- —方沸石analcite
- —立方骨cuboid bone
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