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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
- —方眼紙graph paper; section paper
- —この方this; this one; this way; I; we
- —魔方陣magic square
- —方向舵rudder
- —方位角azimuth
- —方解石calcite
- —方錐形regular pyramid
- —漢方医doctor of Chinese (herbal) medicine
- —地方区prefectural constituency
- —地方病endemic disease; local disease; Japanese schistosomiasis; oriental schistosomiasis; schistosomiasis japonica
- —多方面many-sided; multifarious; versatility
- —薬局方pharmacopeia
- —立方根cube root
- —磁方位magnetic bearing
- —羅方位compass bearing
- —等方的isotropic
- —地方局local broadcast station
- —双方向two-way; bidirectional; interactive
- —両方向two directions; both directions; two-way; bidirectional
- —七方出seven disguises of the ninja
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