Kanji1 / 12
棒 kanji
rod, stick, cane, pole, club, line
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 棒
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —制御棒control rod
- —燃料棒(nuclear reactor's) fuel rod
- —半棒術form of martial art using a short cane staff
- —六尺棒6-shaku-long wooden pole (traditionally used for self-defence, capturing lawbreakers, etc.); carrying pole; shoulder pole
- —打ち棒rolling pin; slapstick (comedy)
- —墓泥棒grave robber; grave robbing
- —車泥棒auto theft; car thief
- —光る棒glowstick; neon light stick
- —泥棒猫thieving cat; adulterer; homewrecker
- —棒人間stick figure; stick person
- —操作棒stick with a hook, claw or other handling mechanism
- —柔剣棒jūkenbō; "body, sword and staff" techniques in martial arts
- —栃麺棒rolling pin for making horse chestnut noodles; hurry; haste; comparison to someone making horse chestnut noodles which requires great haste
- —鳥追棒stick used to drive off birds (during the New Year's procession)
- —突き棒ramrod; rammer; ram; tamping rod; (cattle) prod; goad
- —棒砂糖sugarloaf
- —花泥棒flower thief; stealing flowers
- —棒振りwaving a stick; conductor (orchestra, etc.); Edo policeman
- —棒付きon a stick
- —牛泥棒rustler; cattle thief