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
- N1膳Popularsmall dining table (usu. for a single person); serving tray (with legs); meal; food; serving; counter for bowlfuls of rice; counter for pairs of chopsticks
- —お膳four-legged tray for festive food
- —一膳bowl (of rice); pair (of chopsticks)
- —陰膳tray for absent one
- —本膳main course (of a formal meal); extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs)
- —客膳low tray of food for guests
- —配膳setting a place; setting the table
- —膳部food (on a table; esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant); cook; chef; person who prepares food
- —食膳dining table; a dish (type of food)
- —大膳black-bellied plover; grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
- —薬膳medicinal cooking (based on traditional Chinese medicine)
- —珍膳uncommon and delicious meal
- —御膳meal; Emperor's meal; meal of a noble; high-quality (of a food or drink); premium
- —膳所kitchen
- —下膳clearing up leftover food and dishes
- —陪膳serving food (to a nobleman); nobleman's server
- —箱膳tableware box also used as a personal dining table; box table
- —一の膳1st course at a banquet
- —会席膳elaborate dinner tray
- —二の膳side dish