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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
- —差分方程式difference equation
- —地方消費税local consumption tax
- —ダッチ方式Dutch auction
- —北海道方言Hokkaido dialect
- —方向ボタンdirectional button (on a controller); d-pad button
- —方言連続体dialect continuum; dialect chain
- —後方互換性backward compatibility; downward compatibility
- —前方互換性forward compatibility; upward compatibility
- —あらぬ方向wrong direction; different direction (from what one expected)
- —地方ルールlocal rule; house rule
- —統一地方選nationwide local elections
- —後方乱気流wake turbulence
- —三次方程式cubic equation
- —骨太の方針Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal Management and Structural Reform (periodically released by the Japanese government); Big-Boned Policy
- —状態方程式equation of state
- —四次方程式quartic equation
- —ドント方式D'Hondt method (apportionment method for allocating seats in parliament)
- —一方その頃meanwhile; at the same time
- —じゃない方less prominent one of a pair; less famous member (esp. of a comedy duo or group); (the one who is) not ...; the non-... one (of a pair)
- —ナヤシ方言nayashi dialect (spoken in Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures)
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