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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
- —下方にbelow
- —我が方our side; we
- —後の方later
- —使用方method of use
- —地方債municipal bond; local bond
- —地方時local time
- —長方体right-angled parallelepiped; cuboid; rectangular solid
- —直方体right-angled parallelepiped; cuboid; rectangular solid; rectangular prism
- —南方産products of the south seas
- —平方形square
- —平方根square root
- —平方和sum of squares
- —片一方one side; one party; the other side; the other party; one (of a pair); the other (one); the mate; the fellow
- —方形波square wave
- —方面隊army
- —立方体cube
- —健康方hygiene
- —地方版local edition
- —地方紙local newspaper; regional newspaper
- —地方色local color; local colour
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