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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
- —方墳flat-topped burial mound
- —異方anisotropic
- —和方traditional Japanese medicine
- —方伯landgrave
- —蘭方Western medicine (as introduced to Japan by the Dutch during the Edo period)
- —方竹type of bamboo
- —方杖brace (in construction); angle brace
- —医方healing method
- —方案plan; device; scheme; program; thoughts or suggestions about a law
- —方音dialectal pronunciation
- —方骨quadrate bone
- —方錐square drill; regular pyramid
- —局方Japanese Pharmacopoeia
- —方士sorcerer (in ancient China); (hermit) wizard
- —方技magical art (esp. related to medicine)
- —側方side; lateral direction
- —方眼regular square mesh pattern; square lattice; grid
- —五方five directions (center, north, south, east, and west)
- —方計plan; strategy; method; measure
- —異方性anisotropy
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