Memory phrase for the Kanji: 弁
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Meaning
| dialect, speech, valve
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Pronunciation |
BEN
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Explanation |
Top: nose ム, bottom: two hands 廾 (twice this hand 屮 with the fingers 山 towards the top; simplified & combined) |
Mnemonic
| If you hold the nose with both hands it sounds like a dialect.
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Radicals
ム
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nose | Is typically understood as a nose in a sideview which is directed to the left. |
廾
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two hands | Two hands 屮 (with the fingers 山 towards the top) simplified and combined. |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
弁 |
べん |
dialect as a suffix: (eg 大阪弁, Osaka dialect) |
お弁当 |
おべんとう |
box lunch |
代弁 |
だいべん |
pay by proxy, act for another, speak for another |
勘弁 |
かんべん |
pardon, forgiveness, forbearance |
弁償 |
べんしょう |
next word, compensation, reparation, indemnity, reimbursement |
弁解 |
べんかい |
explanation, justification, excuse |
弁論 |
べんろん |
discussion, debate, argument |
弁護 |
べんご |
defense, pleading, advocacy |
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