Kanji1 / 9
盆 kanji
basin, lantern festival, tray
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 盆
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2盆Populartray; family; household; Obon; Bon Festival; Lantern Festival; Festival of the Dead; gambler's den
- N2盆地Popularbasin (e.g. between mountains)
- —盆栽Popularbonsai; miniature potted plant
- —盆踊りPopularBon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance
- —お盆Obon; Bon Festival; Buddhist festival for honouring the spirits of one's ancestors, held in mid-August or in some regions, mid-July; tray
- —円盆round tray
- —旧盆Bon Festival of the lunar calendar
- —盆画tray landscape
- —盆景miniature garden; tray landscape
- —盆石tray-landscape foundation stone
- —新盆first Bon Festival following the death of a family member
- —茶盆tea tray
- —初盆first Bon Festival following the death of a family member
- —角盆square tray
- —海盆ocean basin
- —盆暗stupid; half-witted; dull-witted; thickheaded; blockhead; idiot; dimwit
- —朱盆vermilion tray
- —三盆traditional high-grade white sugar
- —香盆incense tray
- —擂盆mortar (for grinding); mortar-shaped container