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
- —火吹き棒fire blowpipe; blowpipe used to stimulate a fire
- —うまい棒Umaibo (small, puffed, cylindrical corn snack) (trademark)
- —お祓い棒purification wand with paper streamers used in rites
- —火事場泥棒looter; thief at the scene of a fire; someone who takes advantage of a crisis to commit a crime
- —つっかい棒prop; support
- —藪から棒にout of the blue; all of a sudden; without warning; unexpectedly
- —片棒を担ぐto take part in (usu. something bad); to be a party to; to have a hand in
- —突っ張り棒(spring) tension rod; tension pole
- —ピストン棒piston rod
- —ずんべら棒plain (e.g. face); smooth; slovenly
- —粉屋の泥棒heavily made-up woman; flour-shop burglar
- —つっかえ棒prop; support
- —泥棒政治家kleptocrat
- —棒渦巻銀河barred spiral galaxy
- —犬棒かるたinubō karuta (type of iroha karuta originating in Edo)
- —精神注入棒rod used for corporal punishment in the army and navy
- —段違い平行棒(gymnastics) uneven parallel bars
- —お先棒を担ぐto be a willing cats-paw; to willingly act as someone's tool
- —足を棒にするto walk one's legs off; to walk until one's legs feel like lead; to walk to the point of exhaustion
- —足が棒になるto get stiff legs (after walking or standing up for a long time)