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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
- —北方仏教Northern Buddhism (as practiced in East Asia)
- —運用方法applications; uses; how to operate; operation procedures
- —操作方法user guide; how to operate; operation procedures
- —山陰地方San'in region; region of western Honshu incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures
- —山陽地方San'yō region; region of western Honshu incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, southern Yamaguchi and sometimes western Hyogo prefectures
- —四国地方Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)
- —近畿地方Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)
- —関東地方Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)
- —中部地方Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
- —九州地方Kyushu region (sometimes incl. the Nansei Islands)
- —進行方向direction of travel; direction of movement
- —双方独占bilateral monopoly
- —注文方法method of ordering; procedures for ordering
- —南極地方Antarctic region; the Antarctic; south polar region
- —北方人種Nordic race
- —十方世界worlds of the ten directions
- —北方戦争Great Northern War (1700-1721)
- —左方の楽style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
- —左方唐楽style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
- —方程式系system of equations
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