べんけい – Vocabulary details

べんけい

Noun

1. strong person; person putting on a brave front

after the name of a 12th-century warrior monk

2. bamboo tube with holes drilled in it (used as a stand for kitchen utensils, fans, etc.)

3. checks; plaid; checked pattern

べ

んけい

lion at home but weakling elsewhere

someone haughty and boastful at home but meek and reserved outside; being a lion at home and a mouse abroad

Achilles heel; one's weak point; shin

keyboard warrior; Internet tough guy

situation in which one can move neither forward nor backward; (lit.) Benkei's last stand

orpine (any plant of family Crassulaceae, esp. the garden stonecrop, Hylotelephium erythrostictum)

roseroot (Rhodiola rosea)

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