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弁
JLPT N1 SL5 5 strokes Frequency: #619

Meanings

Valve, Petal, Braid, Speech, Dialect, Discrimination, Dispose Of, Distinguish, Conical Cap

Radicals

廾

Decomposition

⿱厶廾

Etymology

Pictographic: Two hands 廾 putting the cap 厶 on someone's head

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 5

Stroke Order

1 curve top-left-to-bottom-right
2 dot right-to-left
3 horizontal bottom-to-top
4 diagonal right-to-left
5 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ベン ben
ヘン hen
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
わきま wakima
はなびら hanabira
わ wa
かんむり kanmuri
あらそ araso

Words Using This Kanji

254 words total
Other (20 words)
国連人権高等弁務官 こくれんじんけんこうとうべんむかん

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

調節弁 ちょうせつべん

control valve

制御弁 せいぎょべん

control valve

調整弁 ちょうせいべん

control valve

縁紅弁慶 ふちべにべんけい

jade plant (Crassula ovata)

三動弁 さんどうべん

triple valve

仕切弁 しきりべん

gate valve

雄弁術 ゆうべんじゅつ

oratory

パカ弁 パカべん

(incompetent) lawyer who merely discloses the IP addresses of people who make defamatory comments online (without pursuing further legal action)

ビニ弁 ビニべん

convenience store lunch box

僧帽弁閉鎖不全 そうぼうべんへいさふぜん

mitral regurgitation

花弁 かべん

petal

唇弁 しんべん

labellum

大動脈弁閉鎖不全症 だいどうみゃくべんへいさふぜんしょう

aortic incompetence

空弁 そらべん

boxed lunch sold at airports

ロケ弁 ロケべん

boxed lunch eaten at a film or TV shoot

速弁 はやべん

boxed lunch sold at highway rest areas

町弁 まちべん

town lawyer

ソクラテスの弁明 ソクラテスのべんめい

Apology (Plato)

国連難民高等弁務官 こくれんなんみんこうとうべんむかん

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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