弁

valve, petal, braid, speech, dialect, discrimination, dispose of, distinguish, conical cap

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ヘンベン

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

あらそ.うかんむりはなびらわ.けるわきま.える

Nanori (名乗り)

べ

Stroke Order

5 / 5

Information

Grade:5

Strokes:5

JLPT:N1

Frequency:619

Vocabulary

ベン

Word	Reading	Meaning
駅弁	エキベン	boxed lunch bought at a station (often a local specialty); sexual position in which one person stands supporting the other
合弁	ゴウベン	joint management; pool; gamopetalous; sympetalous
代弁	ダイベン	speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); acting as spokesman (for); representing (the views, feelings, etc. of); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; paying on behalf (of); acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)
答弁	トウベン	response; reply; answer; defence; defense
熱弁	ネツベン	impassioned speech; fervent speech

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
花弁	はなびら	petal
弁	べん	speech; tongue; talk; eloquence; dialect; brogue; accent; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal; valve; Oversight Department; division of the daijokan under the ritsuryō system responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices
弁える	わきまえる	to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind
お弁当	おべんとう	bento; Japanese box lunch
手弁当	てべんとう	preparing one's own lunch; bringing one's own lunch; paying for one's own lunch; working without pay; volunteer work

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

Big Dipper, ten sho (vol), sake dipper, dots and cross radical (no. 68)

well, well crib, town, community

climax, arrive, proceed, reach, attain, result in

nonplussed, three (in documents), going, coming, visiting, visit, be defeated, die, be madly in love, participate, take part in

join, get together, unite, collective

arrival, proceed, reach, attain, result in

sweat, perspire

seethe, boil, ferment, uproar, breed