ベン, ヘン, わきま.える, わ.ける, はなびら, あらそ.う
valve, petal, braid, speech, dialect, discrimination, dispose of, distinguish

This kanji has 5 strokes: 2 in the "myself" radical (む) and 3 other strokes.

Sample compounds (25) :

  1. える
    わきまえる
    to know (right from wrong), to discern, to discriminate, to understand, to bear in mind

  2. べんてん
    Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)

  3. たんべん
    univalve

  4. べんしょう
    next word, compensation, reparation, indemnity, reimbursement

  5. べんべつ
    (vs) discriminate

  6. こうべん
    eloquence

  7. べんし
    lecturer, rhetorician, narrator in Japanese silent cinema

  8. たべん
    talkativeness, verbosity

  9. べんざ
    valve seat

  10. しべん
    (vs) payment, defrayal, disbursement

  11. べんさい
    settlement, payment

  12. ねつべん
    fervent speech

  13. べんり
    management

  14. しべん
    speculation
  15. てる
    べんじたてる
    to speak eloquently, to talk volubly

  16. とうべん
    (vs) response, reply, answer, defence

  17. べんぜつ
    speech

  18. はなびら
    (flower) petal

  19. べんかい
    explanation, justification, defence, excuse

  20. とつべん
    (an) slowness of speech, awkwardness of speech

  21. べんしょう
    demonstration, proof

  22. べんろん
    discussion, debate, argument

  23. べんなん
    denunciation, criticism

  24. べんぱく
    refutation, contradiction, rebuttal, disproof, disputation

  25. だべる
    to jabber, to chatter, to chat with
Kanji Character : 弁
Kuten Encoding : 4259
SJIS Encoding : 4a5b
Unicode Encoding : 5f01
Old Nelson Index : 846
Radical Number : 28
Classical Radical Number : 55
Frequency Ranking : 722
Gakken Index : 793
Grade Level : 5
Halpern Index : 2004
Heisig Index : 742
Henshall Index : 786
New Nelson Index : 1663
O'Neil Index : 275
Stroke Count : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 0a5.30
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 0
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : a
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 30
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 711
SKIP Code : 2-2-3
Four Corner Code : 2344.0
Korean reading : ban
Pinyin reading : bian4
Morohashi Index String : 9588
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 4.0664
Morohashi Index Number : 9588
Morohashi Page : 664
Morohashi Volume : 4
Cross Index Codes
  1. J0517E
  2. J05221
  3. J06122
  4. J06D67
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