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衡 kanji
equilibrium, measuring rod, scale
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- N1 (unofficial)
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- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Secondary school
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NoneWords with 衡
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1均衡Popularbalance; equilibrium
- —平衡Popularbalance; equilibrium
- —不均衡Popularimbalance; lack of balance; lopsidedness; disproportion; inequality; disparity
- —拡大均衡Popularan expanded or expanding equilibrium
- —衡平balance; equity
- —衡器scale; balance; weighing machine
- —権衡balance
- —連衡alliance (esp. originally of individual member states of the Six Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty)
- —斉衡Saikō era (854.11.30-857.2.21)
- —金衡troy weight (e.g. troy ounce, troy pound)
- —常衡avoirdupois system
- —衡量weighing; measuring volume; quantifying
- —論衡Lunheng (collection of Chinese classic texts written by Wang Chong)
- —度量衡weights and measures
- —平衡錘counterweight; counterpoise
- —衡平法equity
- —平衡税equalization tax (interest, commercial values, etc.)
- —不平衡imbalance; disequilibrium
- —合従連衡alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty); (tactic of) making and breaking alliances (to benefit oneself as the occasion demands); resorting to alliances as a diplomatic expedient
- —平衡感覚sense of equilibrium; sense of balance
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