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ベンケイ
Meanings
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
Alt. forms
弁べん慶けい
73%
ベンケイ
24%
べんけい
2%
辨べん慶けい
Pitch accent
ベ
ンケイ
Used in: 13
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
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
lion at home but weakling elsewhere
orpine (any plant of family Crassulaceae, esp. the garden stonecrop, Hylotelephium erythrostictum)
roseroot (Rhodiola rosea)
jade plant (Crassula ovata); money plant