べん
Meanings
Noun
1. speech; tongue; talk; eloquence
She spoke words of affirmation in a voice barely audible.
Suffix
2. dialect; brogue; accent
I accidentally slipped into the Kyoto dialect.
Noun
Abbreviation
3. bento; Japanese box lunch
4. petal
5. valve
This is the heart valve.
6. Oversight Department; division of the daijokan under the ritsuryō system responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (122 in total)
pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)
bento; Japanese box lunch
Examples (9 in total)
This is the heart valve.
They are eloquent.
Open the valve on the tank.
Kyoto dialect starts to mix in more and more.
Everyone is kind, and the Kyoto dialect is soothing.
I accidentally slipped into the Kyoto dialect.
She spoke words of affirmation in a voice barely audible.
After a long, long silence, he meekly offered words of apology.
It felt as if I could even hear my heart valves opening and closing.