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
- —棒グラフbar graph; bar chart
- —棒に振るto waste; to sacrifice; to spoil; to ruin; to lose; to forfeit; to throw away
- —棒高跳びpole vault
- —金棒引きgossip; tattletale; scandal-monger; night watchman
- —丸太ん棒log
- —心張り棒bar (e.g. on a door); bolt
- —棒温度計bar thermometer
- —棒で殴るto hit with a club
- —棒を引くto draw a line
- —泥棒根性underhand character; thievish nature
- —月給泥棒freeloader; slacker; lazy worker who does not deserve his salary
- —税金泥棒tax parasite (e.g. public servant, politician, welfare recipient); tax thief
- —説教泥棒preaching burglar; burglar who preaches at the victim about the methods of preventing similar crimes
- —泥棒稼業professional thievery
- —半鐘泥棒very tall person
- —押さえ棒metal rod in a wooden plane which holds the chip breaker against the blade
- —マッチ棒matchstick
- —鬼に金棒making something strong even stronger; solidifying something's chances; (giving) a metal rod to an ogre
- —棒状分子rod-like molecule
- —才取り棒pole used to hand things up a ladder