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)
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On readings
バン
Kun readings
つがい
Words with 番
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —ステートメント番号statement number
- —ページ番号を付けるto paginate
- —非番号制レスポンスunnumbered responses
- —水入り二番後撮り直しrematch due to overlong (over 10 min) bout
- —物理的配達郵便局番号physical delivery office number
- —千番に一番の兼ね合いsomething so difficult that one doesn't know if there's even a 1 in 1000 chance of success
- —クレジットカード番号credit card number
- —マイナーバージョン番号minor version number
- —メジャーバージョン番号major version number
- —国際標準逐次刊行物番号International Standard Serial Number; ISSN
- —ダイヤルイン番号サービスdial-in number service
- —助番leader of a female gang; leader of a group of delinquent girls
- —１番number one; first; first place; best; most; game; round; bout; as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively; song (e.g. in noh); piece
- —丁番hinge; joint (esp. an anatomical joint)
- —２番second; number two; runner-up
- —番附ranked list (entertainers, sumo wrestlers, millionaires, etc.); program (e.g. theatre)
- —番めthe nth ...; divisions of a kabuki performance
- —張番lookout; watch
- —見番geisha call-office; assignation office for geisha; geisha on call
- —生番unconquered savage; uncivilized aboriginal; aboriginal Taiwanese tribes outside Qing China's jurisdiction