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
- —番屋sentry box; guardhouse; guard lodge; (Edo period) police box
- —燗番person in charge of warming sake in a bar
- —湯番person at a public bath in charge of heating the water and filling the baths
- —番衆guard (of a daimyo, emperor, etc.)
- —定番standing guard; watchman; guard at the shogun's palaces (Edo period)
- —相番being on duty with a colleague; partner; colleague
- —番宣promo; advertising for a program (TV, radio, etc.); program publicity
- —部番part number; PN
- —手番one's turn (esp. in go, shogi, etc.)
- —番個-nth game (of 12 rounds)
- —廃番discontinuation (of a model); discontinued model
- —整番ticket number (designating order of admission)
- —白番white player
- —加番guards at Ōsaka and Sunpu castles (Edo period)
- —発番number generation; issuing a number
- —千番thousand times
- —枝番classification number; branch number
- —番戸plot number; house number
- —線番wire gauge
- —城番castle guard