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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
- —お支払い方法Popularpayment method
- —平方キロメートルPopularsquare kilometer; square kilometre
- —方が良いPopularhad better ...; had better not ...
- —方がよいPopularhad better ...; had better not ...
- —支払方法Popularpayment method
- —お支払方法Popularpayment method
- —快方convalescence
- —貴方your home; your residence; you (referring to one's equal; epistolary style)
- —古方old method
- —公方public affairs; the court; the shogun; the shogunate
- —正方square
- —内方inside; (another's) wife
- —百方in every way
- —方形square
- —方途way; means
- —方便means; expedient; instrument; upaya (skillful means, methods of teaching)
- —万方many lands; many means
- —立方cube
- —六方the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, and down); hexagonal
- —方術method; means; technique; mystic arts (of a Taoist hermit or immortal); supernatural techniques; magic
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