Kanji1 / 8
法 kanji
method, law, rule, principle, model, system
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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On readings
ホウハッホッフラン
Kun readings
のり
Variant forms
佱灋Words with 法
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —法的行為legal action
- —芳香療法aromatherapy
- —無法状態lawlessness
- —薬草療法herbal therapy
- —法社会学sociology of law
- —撞着語法oxymoron
- —矛盾語法oxymoron
- —悪徳商法unscrupulous business practices; fraudulent business practices; crooked business practices
- —永字八法Eight Principles of Yong; principles for writing the eight basic brush strokes in Chinese characters
- —原野商法fraudulent sale of worthless land (e.g. by overstating its future value)
- —点検商法unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items
- —殿様商法amateurish way of doing business
- —内職商法work-at-home scheme (scam in which the offer of a highly paid work-at-home job is used to lure victims into paying substantial upfront costs)
- —如法暗夜total (utter) darkness
- —便乗商法piggybacking marketing; method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.)
- —福祉商法unscrupulous business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience; sales methods in which someone falsely claims to represent a charitable organization
- —不調法者clumsy person; bungler; person with no particular talents (in performing arts); nondrinker; nonsmoker
- —文章作法methods of writing; rules of good writing; writing style guide
- —兵法指南instruction in martial arts
- —法界悋気being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one; being jealous of others who are in love with each other