Kanji
Readingべん
Frequency92%
Used in (244 in total)
bento; Japanese box lunch
bento; Japanese box lunch
pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
lawyer; attorney
(flower) petal
explanation (e.g. for one's actions); excuse; justification; defense; defence
Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
counsel; defender; advocate
explanation; excuse; clarification; vindication; apology
defense; defence; pleading; advocacy
oratory; eloquence
speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)
reimbursement; compensation; reparation; indemnity
sophistry; sophism
impassioned speech; fervent speech
protest; refutation; pleading
dialectic; dialectics
speech; eloquence; manner of speaking; manner of expression
the defence; defence side
boxed lunch bought at a station (often a local specialty); sexual position in which one person stands supporting the other
strong person; person putting on a brave front; bamboo tube with holes drilled in it (used as a stand for kitchen utensils, fans, etc.); checks; plaid
convenience store lunch box
spokesperson; speaker (for someone); mouthpiece; voice (e.g. for the ordinary citizen)
response; reply; answer; defence; defense
discussion; debate; argument
self-justification; excuse
legal adviser; legal advisor; corporation lawyer; family lawyer
insisting (unreasonably); obstinate insistence
talkativeness; loquacity; polypetalous; multivalve
artificial valve; artificial heart valve
to speak; to talk; to argue; to manage; to dispose of; to carry through
eloquence; oratory
lunchbox made with loving care by one's wife
law office; lawyer's office; attorney's office
mitral valve; bicuspid valve
someone haughty and boastful at home but meek and reserved outside; being a lion at home and a mouse abroad
lecturer; rhetorician; orator; narrator in Japanese silent cinema; film interpreter
repayment; settlement (of a debt); paying off; reimbursement (of expenses)
to be eloquent; to have a way with words
eating one's lunch box before lunchtime (e.g. of a student)
demonstration; proof
homemade bento containing food decorated to look like cute characters (from anime, etc.)
nori bento
Tokyo dialect; Tokyo accent
paying one's own expenses
Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water
speculation
box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables)
orator; eloquent speaker; accomplished orator
team of lawyers; defense team; defence team
to manage; to dispose of; to carry through; to distinguish; to discriminate
distinguishing; distinction; discrimination; telling apart
bringing one's own lunch
interpreter (in the Edo period)
lunchbox hanging from one's waist; low-paid office worker
foolish tale; nonsense
preparing one's own lunch; bringing one's own lunch; paying for one's own lunch; working without pay; volunteer work
Tsugaru Dialect (Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture)
speaker; orator
large Japanese junk
box lunches for delivery; catering meal
joint venture (company)
written response; reply
narrator in Japanese silent cinema
shyster; pettifogger; unscrupulous lawyer; crooked lawyer
monopetalous; univalve
reparation; indemnity; compensation; reimbursement
pigtail; queue; cue
oral proceedings; oral pleadings
Achilles heel; one's weak point; shin
excuse; plea; defense; defence
to speak eloquently; to talk volubly
defense (of oneself); defence (of oneself); explanation
hinomaru bento (contains plain white rice with a single red umeboshi on top)
closing argument; closing statement
payment; defrayal; disbursement
skin flap; flap
speech; manner of speaking
eloquence; oratorical talent
joint management; pool; gamopetalous; sympetalous
square or rectangular bento box containing cross-shaped separators
Attorneys-at-Law Act; Lawyer Act
refutation; contradiction; rebuttal; disproof; disputation
valvular heart disease; heart valve disease
heart valve; cardiac valve
hot bento
large Japanese junk
Tōhoku dialect; Tohoku dialect
slowness of speech; awkwardness of speech
keyboard warrior; Internet tough guy
patent attorney; patent agent
proponent; defender; advocate
valvular disease; valvular heart disease
solicitor (legal practitioner)
valve (of the heart and the veins)
double-flowered
red iron oxide; rouge
lunchbox hanging from one's waist; low-paid office worker
dialectic demonstration; display of skill in explanation
man who makes his own lunch to take to work
situation in which one can move neither forward nor backward; (lit.) Benkei's last stand
minor local college; small-time university
management
apologetics; dialectics
flattery; cajolery; adulation
bicuspid valve; mitral valve
escape valve; release valve; relief valve
denunciation; criticism
checked pattern; plaid
discernment; clear analysis; clear expression; distinguished speech
Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)
independent lawyer; lawyer with their own practice
with rice stuck on one's face
thick Tōhoku accent (wherein some "j" sounds become "z" sounds)
female narrator in a silent movie theatre
letter of explanation; written explanation
finishing one's business; settling an affair
the busier you are, the better you work; the more, the better
electromagnetic valve; solenoid valve
speculative philosophy
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR
comprador; compradore; person working for a foreign company to the detriment of their own country
Iyo dialect (spoken in Ehime prefecture)
partnership between a lawyer and non-lawyer in providing law services (illegal)
throttle valve
vexillum; vane (of a feather)
lion at home but weakling elsewhere
gill lamella; branchial lamella; gill filament
Izumo dialect (spoken mostly in eastern Shimane prefecture)
comprador-like; being an underling to a foreign company to the detriment of one's own country
opposing speech; rebuttal (in debate)
atrioventricular valve
Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration and Popular Affairs) (ritsuryo system)
store-bought bento
clerical work
incoherent talk
checks; plaid; checked pattern
children's lunch box of cooked rice and a Western-style side dish (popular late Meiji and Taisho periods)
gamopetalous flower
something worn over tabi to keep them from getting dirty
apologetic (defensive) tone of voice
payment in substitutes; accord and satisfaction; substitute performance
pars opercularis; orbital part of inferior frontal gyrus
practising law without a license
gamopetalous corolla; sympetalous corolla
repleading; pleading again
discursive (i.e. proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than intuition)
financial supporter (of a visa applicant); financial sponsor
dialects of Japanese spoken in Eastern Tottori prefecture
hemostasis valve
double flower; double blossom
schizopetalous flower
choripetalous; polypetalous; schizopetalous
water regulating valve; gate valve
sophist school (of philosophy)
former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer; prosecutor-turned-lawyer
subrogation; subrogated performance; payment in subrogation
skilful debate; well-constructed debate
single-petaled flower
difference threshold; differential limen
valve seat
globe valve; spherical valve; stop valve
keel petal (type of flower)
anal valve; valvulae anales
lamellibranches (i.e. bivalves)
Inshū dialect (spoken in eastern Tottori)
standard (type of flower); banner; vexillum
flap; skin flap
lunch box brought to cram school; cram school lunch box
thick Osaka dialect (as supposedly spoken by Hanshin Tigers fans)
fluency; eloquence
flattery; adulation; sycophancy
orpine (any plant of family Crassulaceae, esp. the garden stonecrop, Hylotelephium erythrostictum)
orpine (Hylotelephium telephium)
roseroot (Rhodiola rosea)
Sesarmops intermedium (species of grapsoid crab)