Kanji1 / 12
棒 kanji
rod, stick, cane, pole, club, line
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 棒
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N4泥棒Popularthief; burglar; robber; theft; burglary; robbery
- N3棒Popularpole; rod; stick; baton; line; dash; spoken monotonously
- —相棒Popularpartner; pal; accomplice
- —鉄棒Populariron rod; iron bar; iron club; horizontal bar (gymnastics)
- —棒立ちPopularstanding upright; standing bolt upright; rearing
- —用心棒Popularbodyguard; bouncer; (security) guard; bar (on a door); bolt; stick or pole used for self-defence
- —ぶっきら棒Popularcurt; blunt; brusque
- —警棒(police officer's) baton; truncheon; billy club
- —健棒good batting
- —心棒shaft; axle; mandrel; arbor; centre of a group
- —先棒front palanquin bearer; flunky; cat's-paw; tool
- —乳棒pestle
- —棒状cylinder or rod-shaped
- —棒線straight line
- —棍棒stick; club; cudgel; bludgeon
- —麺棒rolling pin
- —棒術bōjutsu (art of using a stick as a weapon)
- —棒鱈dried codfish soaked in water for few days, and cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and water (Kyoto speciality)
- —棒鋼steel rod
- —痛棒severe attack; bitter (harsh) criticism; stick used to strike inattentive Zen meditators