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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
- —地方航空局Regional Civil Aviation Bureau
- —地方国税局Regional Taxation Bureau
- —地方法務局District Legal Affairs Bureau
- —東方見聞録The Travels of Marco Polo
- —地方運輸局District Transport Bureau
- —後方地域警備rear area security
- —前方再補給点forward arming and refueling point
- —八方ふさがりbeing boxed in on all sides; having obstacles in every direction; being at a loss (what to do); being in a fix
- —統一地方選挙nationwide local elections
- —途方に暮れるto be at a loss; to be puzzled
- —快方に向かうto take a turn for the better (of an illness, patient, etc.); to begin to improve; to begin to recover; to convalesce
- —方程式の一項member of an equation
- —アドオン方式add-on
- —夏山冬里方式rotated grazing
- —業績下方修正profit warning
- —施政方針演説policy speech
- —双方向テレビinteractive television
- —した方がいいhad better do so
- —偏微分方程式partial differential equation
- —ホフマン方式Hoffmann method
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