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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
- —恵方favourable direction; favorable direction; lucky direction
- —方丈square jō (approx. 10 sq feet); abbot's chamber; chief priest; Mount Fangzhang (said to be inhabited by immortals); Mount Fanghu
- —方今present time; now; nowadays
- —方円squares and circles; square and round shapes
- —秘方secret method; secret recipe; (prescription for a) secret medicine
- —諸方every direction
- —方寸a square sun (i.e. approx 9sq. cm.); one's mind; space occupied by one's heart
- —方正rectitude
- —方里square ri
- —方図end; limit; limits
- —方陣square formation (of troops); magic square
- —方略plan; stratagem; measure
- —薬方prescription; formula (for the preparation of a medicine); recipe
- —複方compound drug
- —左方left side
- —等方isotropic
- —弊方me; mine
- —方立mullion
- —方領square-shaped collar (of some traditional Japanese clothing)
- —十方the ten directions (north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, up and down); all directions; everywhere
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