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Kanji Detail for 板 - "board, plank"

板

  • Meaning

    板 means "board, plank." Also associated with printing block.

    1. Board - A flat piece of wood.

    2. Plank - A long, flat piece of timber.

    3. Printing block - A carved woodblock for printing.

  • Words using 板

    • 看板 かんばん Listen signboard; sign; billboard
    • 登板 とうばん Listen taking the mound; pitching a game
    • 板門店 パンムンジョム Listen Panmunjom (Korea); Panmunjeom; Joint Security Area (Korean Demilitarized Zone)
    • 鋼板 こうはん Listen steel sheet; steel plate
    • 鉄板 てっぱん Listen iron plate; steel plate; sure thing
    • 黒板 こくばん Listen blackboard
    • 降板 こうばん Listen leaving the mound; being knocked out; resignation
    • 板ガラス いたガラス Listen plate glass; sheet glass

  • Four-character idioms with 板

    • 一枚看板 いちまいかんばん Listen leading player; prima donna; box-office star
    • 二枚看板 にまいかんばん Listen the two leading actors (in a play); the two star players; the two distinctive features

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    • Verified meaning: board, plank
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read いた, いたか, いたさき, いたざき)
    • Also carries these associations: printing block

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 板

    Surnames 板(いた)Listen 板(いたか)Listen 板(いたさき)Listen 板(いたざき)Listen 板(いたはな)Listen 板(いたばな)Listen 板(ばん)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    plank; board; plate; stage

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    plank, board; iron or tin plate

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); CL:塊|块[kuai4]; accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    board, plank; plate, slab; unnatural, stiff

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A flat piece of wood. | Any thin flat object is called 板. Such as 銅板 (copper plate), 鐵板 (iron plate). Ancients called the ivory tablet 手板. Imperial decrees were called 詔板. Same meaning. | 板板: Unsettled, turbulent. The "Ban" and "Dang" poems in the Greater Odes of "Book of Odes" were written because the Zhou dynasty was in great turmoil. 蕩 means lawless chaos. Hence national disorder is called 板蕩. | Colloquially, inflexibility is called 板. Such as 呆板 (rigid), 古板 (old-fashioned). | Printing blocks are called 板. Such as 原板 (original edition), 翻板 (reprint). | 拍板: A percussion instrument used for rhythm in songs. Hence rhythm is called 板. Such as 腔板 (tune and rhythm), 板眼 (beat). | Flogging is called 板, colloquially called 小板子 (small paddle). A type of punishment implement.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ban(バン) バン

    han(ハン) ハン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ita(いた) いた

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    board plank printing block percussion instrument flat panel piece table timber wood floor ceiling slab

Sentences including 板

  • There's a big sign.

  • Look at the blackboard.

  • Look at the blackboard , everyone.

  • The floor is made of boards.

  • I'll write it on the blackboard.

  • The teacher wrote his name on the blackboard.

  • Let's set up a sign here.

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