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
- —月番monthly shift or duty
- —検番geisha call-office; assignation office for geisha; geisha on call
- —牢番prison guard; jailer; gaoler
- —早番early shift; morning shift; early arrival
- —探番attributing a sequence number (packet, message, etc.)
- —採番numbering; assigning a number
- —項番item number
- —番代taking turns; relieving the guard
- —若番lower number; lower numbers
- —老番higher number; higher numbers
- —黒番black player
- —製番product number
- —番太watchman (implies low rank or burakumin status)
- —携番mobile phone number; cell phone number
- —裏番secret leader of a group of juvenile delinquents; program in a competing timeslot (programme)
- —特番special radio or television programme; television special
- —財番asset register number
- —付番number assignment; numbering; rank suffix (in SGML)
- —辻番town-watches from the Edo period
- —番重food tray (used in the food industry)