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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
- —日本地方自治研究学会Nippon Urban Management and Local Government Research Association; NUMLGRA
- —北方領土問題対策協会Northern Territories Issue Association
- —全国地方公共団体コードlocal government code; standard area code
- —サイクルアンドライド方式cycle and ride system
- —女房と畳は新しい方が良いwives and tatami mats are best when new
- —アクティブマトリクス方式active matrix
- —タイリングウィンドウ方式tiling window method
- —ビュー上方向定義ベクトルview up vector
- —シュレーディンガー方程式Schrödinger equation
- —オーバーラップウィンドウ方式overlapped windowing
- —ディファレンシャルマンチェスタ符号化方式differential Manchester encoding
- —我方our side; we
- —方則law; rule
- —方方here and there; this way and that way; everywhere; all over
- —開方extraction of roots; evolution
- —わが方our side; we
- —韓方薬Chinese herbal medicine
- —野方図wild; unruly; arrogant; endless (e.g. spending); uncontrolled; rampant (e.g. weeds)
- —此の方this; this one; this way; I; we
- —恵方詣New Year's visit to a shrine or temple which lies in a favorable (favourable) or lucky direction
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