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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
- —賢良方正wise and virtuous; good and able men
- —斜方晶系orthorhombic crystal system
- —前方宣言forward declaration
- —方位磁針compass
- —保存方法storage method (e.g. for food); storage instructions
- —三店方式three shop system; system employed by pachinko parlours of using separate shops to exchange prizes for cash as a way of circumventing gambling laws
- —もう一方the other; the other one
- —防戦一方defensive-only
- —日伯方式Japanese-Brazilian implementation of ISDB (digital television and radio standard)
- —正方晶系tetragonal crystal system
- —立方晶系cubic crystal system
- —直方晶系orthorhombic crystal system
- —後方互換backward compatible; downward compatible
- —前方互換forward compatible; upward compatible
- —地方創生countryside revitalisation (revitalization)
- —入力方式input method; input system
- —入力方法input method
- —沖縄方言Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect
- —円鑿方枘round peg in a square hole
- —本土方言mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)
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