Kanji1 / 16
膳 kanji
small low table, tray
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ゼンセン
Kun readings
かしわすすめるそなえる
Variant forms
饍Words with 膳
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —据え膳meal set before one; women's advances
- —配膳人waiter
- —配膳室pantry
- —上げ膳placing a meal in front of one
- —膳越しrudely reaching over one's serving tray to grab food behind it with one's chopsticks
- —内膳司office in charge of the Emperor's meals (ritsuryō system)
- —膳立てsetting the table; laying the table; setting up; getting one's ducks in a row; running interference; setting the stage
- —和食膳tray of traditional Japanese food
- —銘々膳individual dining table
- —一膳飯bowl of rice; single serving of rice; bowl of rice placed by the pillow of the recently deceased
- —四の膳fourth tray (of food)
- —配膳台serving table (for meals); serving stand
- —配膳口service hatch
- —一膳飯屋simple and inexpensive restaurant; diner
- —お膳立てsetting the table; laying the table; setting up; getting one's ducks in a row; running interference; setting the stage
- —本膳料理extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs)
- —御膳そばhigh-quality soba
- —御膳汁粉shiruko made with strained red bean paste
- —薬膳料理medicinal cooking (based on traditional Chinese herbal medicine)
- —上げ膳据え膳taking care of everything; no need to do anything