Kanji1 / 16
壇 kanji
podium, stage, rostrum, terrace
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 壇
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —壇場stage
- —土壇dirt mound; dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
- —香壇incense altar
- —華壇world of ikebana; ikebana circles
- —神壇altar
- —基壇platform on which a structure is built; stylobate; foundation
- —露壇terrace (in a garden)
- —独壇場field in which one acts unchallenged; unrivaled sphere of activity; one's monopoly
- —ひな壇tiered doll stand (for hina dolls); tiered platform; tiered gallery
- —祭壇座Ara (constellation); the Altar
- —須弥壇dais for a Buddhist image
- —護摩壇homa-mandala (fire altar)
- —祭壇画altarpiece
- —登壇者presenter (e.g. of a paper); speaker
- —鎮壇具goods buried during the ground-breaking ceremony for a temple
- —論壇誌opinion journal; serious magazine
- —六祖壇経Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch; Platform Sutra
- —演壇に登るto mount the platform
- —教壇に立つto stand on a podium; to teach; to be a teacher
- —壇ノ浦の戦いBattle of Dan-no-ura (final battle of the Genpei War; 1185)