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Kanji Detail for 盤 - "bowl"

盤

  • Meaning

    盤 means "bowl." Also associated with platform, large rock.

    1. Bowl - Dish; large plate; basin.

    2. Platform - A stand for placing things.

    3. Large rock - A big boulder.

    4. To coil - To circle; to wind; to curl up; to meander.

  • Words using 盤

    • 基盤 きばん Listen base; basis; foundation
    • 中盤 ちゅうばん Listen middle stage; middle phase; middle game
    • 終盤 しゅうばん Listen endgame; final stage
    • 地盤 じばん Listen ground; crust (earth); bed (gravel, river, etc.)
    • 序盤 じょばん Listen opening (in a game of go, chess, etc.); early stages; initial phase
    • 円盤 えんばん Listen disk; discus; platter
    • 岩盤 がんばん Listen bedrock
    • 鍵盤 けんばん Listen keyboard (of a piano, typewriter, etc.)

  • Four-character idioms with 盤

    • 地盤沈下 じばんちんか Listen land subsidence; decline in influence
    • 杯盤狼藉 はいばんろうぜき Listen glasses and plates being scattered about after a party or banquet; articles lying about in a jumble
    • 盤根錯節 ばんこんさくせつ Listen hard-to-penetrate event; hard-to-penetrate situation

  • Tattoo check: 盤

    • Verified meaning: bowl
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read いわお, ばん)
    • Also carries these associations: platform, large rock

    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 盤

    Given names 盤(いわお)Listen

    Surnames 盤(ばん)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    tray; shallow bowl; platter; tub; board; phonograph record

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    tray, plate, dish; examine

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    tray; plate; dish; (finance) (bound form) market prices; (computing) (bound form) disk; to coil (a rope, pigtail etc); to check; to examine; to investigate; to transfer; to sell (property); to shift; to move (sth big and heavy); classifier for things resembling a plate or dish; classifier for coils; classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    tray, plate, dish; to examine

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

    A vessel for holding things. Originally written as 槃. Made of wood. | A vessel for bathing. Anciently also called 盤. Tang's inscription on the basin. Seen in (Great Learning). Like today's face basin. | 盤桓. Not advancing. Hence friends lingering in conversation without leaving is also called 盤桓. | 盤旋. To circle around, gaining momentum, going and returning. Such as making a horse circle before galloping is called 盤馬. | The overall situation of a matter is called 盤. Such as saying 通盤籌畫 (planning overall), 和盤托出 (reveal everything) and such. | Checking goods is called 盤. Hence when shops invite people to take over is called 召盤. | Colloquially, the price in buying and selling is called 盤. Such as 開盤 (opening price), 收盤 (closing price). | Investigating the cause of a matter is called 盤. Such as 盤詰 (interrogate), 盤問 (question). | Same as 般. Joy. 盤遊無度 (indulging in pleasure without limit). Seen in (Book of Documents). | Same as 磐. 磐石 (massive rock). Also written as 盤石. Seen in (Book of Han).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ban(バン) バン

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    15 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    皿 (sara)

  • Related Keywords

    bowl platform large rock board tray plate disk basin stand base foundation chess game record platter serving coil winding

Sentences including 盤

  • Look! A flying saucer!

  • Look! A flying saucer!

  • Love is the bedrock of my life.

  • We believed it to be a flying saucer.

  • The compass pointer always seeks north.

  • The Othello board turned entirely to white.

  • The foundation of free nations is democracy.

  • The chessboard is the world.

  • Have you ever seen a UFO?

  • A "soroban" is a type of Japanese abacus.

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