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
- —くるり棒flail (for threshing grain)
- —火かき棒fire hook; poker; slice bar
- —核燃料棒nuclear fuel rod; nuclear rod
- —特殊警棒extendable baton
- —粥かき棒wooden ladle or rod used to stir the rice porridge used in a kayuura divination
- —自撮り棒selfie stick
- —棒青海苔gutweed (Ulva intestinalis); grass kelp
- —泥棒政治kleptocracy
- —伸ばし棒rolling pin; extension bar; katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark
- —泥棒削りpencil sharpened at both ends; sharpening a pencil at both ends
- —セルカ棒selfie stick
- —宝石泥棒jewel thief
- —牛追い棒cattle prod
- —片棒担ぎtaking part (in a crime); participation; partner (in crime); accomplice
- —藪から棒bolt from the blue; unforeseen event; complete surprise
- —泥棒回りclockwise rotation (when playing cards, etc.)
- —賽銭泥棒thief who steals money from the offerings box at a shrine or temple; offerings thief
- —給料泥棒(work) shirker; goldbricker; good-for-nothing employee; salary thief
- —当たり棒pestle
- —リーチ棒rīchi bet; scoring stick wagered and placed in the center of the game table by a player after declaring rīchi