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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
- —地方公務員法Local Public Service Act
- —上代東国方言eastern old Japanese
- —地方卸売市場regional wholesale market; local wholesale market
- —正距方位図法azimuthal equidistant projection
- —護送船団方式convoy system; Japanese economic policy of preventing weaker financial institutions from failing
- —東方の三博士Magi; Three Wise Men
- —処方箋医薬品prescription drug; prescription medication
- —方トリウム石thorianite
- —動力分散方式multiple-unit system
- —中国東方航空China Eastern Airlines
- —北方交通大学Northern Jiaotong University
- —北方工業大学North China University of Technology
- —北方対策本部Northern Territories Affairs Administration
- —中国南方航空China Southern Airlines
- —シーリング方式ceiling system
- —シップエア方式ship air system
- —八方丸く収まるto end amicably for everyone involved; to be resolved to everyone's satisfaction; to be settled without hard feelings on any side
- —自動方向探知機automatic direction finder; ADF
- —八方手を尽くすto try all possible means
- —無線方位測定器radio direction finder
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