Kanji1 / 12
番 kanji
turn, number in a series
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
バン
Kun readings
つがい
Words with 番
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —使い番errand runner; messenger (Azuchi-Momoyama period); patroller; minor official (Edo period)
- —小番付Edo-period small-size single-sheet prints containing puzzles, short stories, etc.; Edo-period playbills
- —二番底double dip; double-dip recession; second bottom; double bottom
- —図番号drawing number
- —無番地location without an address; unnumbered plot of land
- —二番茶second-grade tea (second picking)
- —可付番countable (of a set); enumerable; denumerable
- —番勝負multi-game competition; best-of-X series
- —一番端very end; extremity; edge; endmost one
- —一番槍the first to thrust a spear (at the enemy); the first to achieve fame; the first to achieve merit
- —書院番shogun bodyguards (Edo-period)
- —暗証番号personal identification number; PIN; password number
- —一貫番号serial number
- —一番多いmost numerous
- —開口一番at the very beginning of one's speech; immediately upon opening one's mouth (to speak); before anything else; first of all
- —教養番組educational program (TV, radio)
- —緊褌一番gird oneself up
- —娯楽番組amusement program; amusement programme
- —座席番号seat number
- —寝ずの番night watch; night watchman; sleepless vigil