弁 （ベン） speech, tongue, talk, eloquence, dialect, brogue, accent, bento, Japanese box lunch, petal, valve, Oversight Department, division of the daijokan under the ritsuryō system responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices

弁解 （ベンカイ） explanation (e.g. for one's actions), excuse, justification, defense, defence

詭弁 （キベン） sophistry, sophism

抗弁 （コウベン） protest, refutation, pleading