Readings

Kana: ベン、ヘン、わきま.える、わ.ける、はなびら、あらそ.う
Romaji: ben, hen, wakima.eru, wa.keru, hanabira, araso.u
Kana
Romaji

Meanings

speech, dialect

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  21
Radical Number:  28
Frequency: 
Grade: 
Skip Pattern:  1-7-14
Korean Reading:  byeon
Chinese Reading:  bian4
Unicode:  8faf
JIS:  6D67

Indexes

Halpern Index: 1660
Nelson Index: 847
New Nelson Index: 6005
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 0a5.30
Four Corner Index: 0044.1
Daikanwanjiten Index: 38677
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 10.1090
Kodansha Kanji Index: 2092

Words

(べん)
speech; tongue; talk; eloquence; dialect; brogue; accent; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal; valve; Oversight Department; division of the daijokan under the ritsuryo system responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices
能弁 (のうべん)
eloquence; oratory
弁財天 (べんざいてん、べざいてん)
Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water
弁駁 (べんばく、べんぱく)
refutation; contradiction; rebuttal; disproof; disputation
詭弁 (きべん)
sophistry; sophism; chicanery; play on words
関西弁 (かんさいべん)
Kansai dialect
弁解 (べんかい)
justification; rationalization; pretext; explanation; exculpation; defence; defense; excuse; apology
弁士 (べんし)
lecturer; rhetorician; orator; narrator in Japanese silent cinema; film interpreter
弁論 (べんろん)
discussion; debate; argument
女弁士 (おんなべんし)
female narrator in a silent movie theatre
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