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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
- —青方変移blue shift; blueshift
- —方ほう石boracite
- —途方も無いextraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd
- —２次方程式quadratic equation
- —八方塞がりbeing boxed in on all sides; having obstacles in every direction; being at a loss (what to do); being in a fix
- —八方にらみstaring at or watching all sides
- —方向探知器direction finder
- —１次方程式linear equation
- —快方に向うto take a turn for the better (of an illness, patient, etc.); to begin to improve; to begin to recover; to convalesce
- —うそも方便the end justifies the means; circumstances may justify a lie
- —四方反り鉋wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade
- —方が宜しいhad better; is advisable
- —方向づけるto direct; to guide; to orient; to orientate; to align
- —５次方程式quintic equation
- —有らぬ方向wrong direction; different direction (from what one expected)
- —３次方程式cubic equation
- —４次方程式quartic equation
- —なやし方言nayashi dialect (spoken in Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures)
- —途方にくれるto be at a loss; to be puzzled
- —快方にむかうto take a turn for the better (of an illness, patient, etc.); to begin to improve; to begin to recover; to convalesce
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