This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

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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