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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
- —二項方程式binomial equation
- —公理的方法axiomatic method
- —対数方眼紙logarithmic graph paper
- —運動方程式equation of motion
- —方法的懐疑methodic doubt
- —科学的方法scientific method
- —方向付けるto direct; to guide; to orient; to orientate; to align
- —横四方固めyoko-shiho-gatame (judo hold in which the opponent's shoulders and hips are pinned)
- —方向指示器direction indicator; traffic indicator; turn signal
- —順方向電圧forward voltage (e.g. of a semiconductor)
- —上円下方墳burial mound with square flat base and round top
- —方言周圏論center versus periphery theory
- —五次方程式quintic equation
- —地方財政法Local Government Finance Act
- —北方真獣類Boreoeutheria (clade of placental mammals); Boreotheria; boreoeutherians
- —甲信越地方Kōshin'etsu region (including Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata prefectures); Koshinetsu
- —北方限界線Northern Limit Line; North Limit Line; NLL; demarcation line in the Yellow Sea between North Korea and South Korea
- —支配方程式governing equation
- —縦四方固めtate-shiho-gatame (judo); vertical four-quarter hold
- —残差平方和residual sum of squares
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