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
- —文番号statement label
- —列番号column number
- —当番兵batman; officer's orderly
- —一番目first (in a series)
- —番太郎watchman
- —夏本番midsummer; height of summer
- —番外地location without an address; unnumbered plot of land
- —番組名program name (television); program identification
- —別荘番caretaker of a villa
- —順番にin turns; in series; in order; by rotation
- —金庫番person who holds the purse strings; person who minds the cash; safe keeper; treasurer
- —番匠笠large primitive bamboo hat
- —荷物番keeping an eye on people's belongings (so they don't get stolen)
- —電話番phone duty; being on call
- —冠番組namesake program; namesake show; TV or radio program named after the main performer or a sponsor
- —順番こalternating; taking turns
- —御庭番spy working for the Edo shogunate; oniwaban
- —番組表program guide; (TV) channel guide
- —後番組successor (TV) program; follow-on program
- —定番化becoming part of the standard inventory (of a product); becoming popular