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
- —番外exception; supernumerary; extra (theatrical); extra (e.g. performance, item, object, etc.); additional; outsize
- —番傘coarse oilpaper umbrella
- —番人guard; watchman
- —番線track number; platform number; wire gauge
- —番台attendant's booth (in a bathhouse changing room); door-keeper's stand; watcher's seat
- —番茶coarse tea
- —番頭(head) clerk
- —門番gatekeeper; door guard; doorman; concierge; janitor
- —連番consecutive number; serial number
- —夜番night watch; night sentry
- —非番off duty
- —週番weekly duty
- —遅番late shift; second shift; afternoon shift
- —番兵sentry; guard
- —番卒sentry; guard
- —番所guardhouse
- —番長leader of a group of juvenile delinquents
- —山番ranger (forest); mountain guardian
- —地番lot number
- —品番stock number (of item); part number; PN