Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

板: plank, board

Also: plate, stage

JLPT N28 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

木 carries the meaning · 反 gives the sound

8 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

ハンhan · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 鉄板てっぱんiron plate
  • 甲板かんぱんdeck

バンban · on'yomi

  • 黒板こくばんblackboard
  • 看板かんばんsignboard, billboard
  • 掲示板けいじばんbulletin board, clipboard

いたita · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 板いたboard, plank
  • 板前いたまえchef, cook

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 tree (meaning) + 反 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 板 (rev. 92213290), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Tree (木) + reverse/return (反). A sturdy piece of "wood" that has been split and flattened into a single "plank" or "board" for construction.”
From the 木 tree story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
木

Also built on tree (木)

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反

Also built on anti- (反)

板 takes the 反 family's reading, ハン (han).

Also read ハン

26 kanji share this on'yomiAll 26

Also read バン

8 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
板 plank · 反
vs枝 bough · 支
板 has 反 where 枝 has 支.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · bǎn

Same form: 板 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
板 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
板 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin bǎn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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