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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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ホウ
Kun readings
かた-かた-がた
Words with 方
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —生産方式production system; production method; manufacturing system
- —西方教会Western Church; Western Christianity
- —政策方針(political) policy position; line of policy; party line
- —方向感覚sense of orientation; sense of direction
- —反対方向opposite direction
- —北極地方Arctic region; the Arctic; north polar region
- —三世十方limitless time and space
- —販売方法marketing system; sales method; sales plan
- —選考方法selection process; judging system
- —その一方meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; likewise; equally; at the same time; in contrast
- —社会方言sociolect; social dialect
- —上層方言acrolect
- —下位方言subdialect
- —下層方言basilect
- —長手方向longer direction; longitudinal direction
- —八方破れfull of holes (e.g. argument); vulnerable to any kind of attack (or criticism, etc.)
- —指導方針guidelines; guiding principle; dictates
- —厚み方向perpendicular direction; lengthwise direction
- —側方堆積lateral moraine
- —三方よしeverybody doing well (e.g. purchaser, buyer and society); three-way satisfaction; all three parties doing well
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