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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

番: turn, number in a series

JLPT N312 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met

釆 and 田 carry the meaning

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

バンban · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 番号ばんごうnumber
  • 番地ばんちhouse number, address
  • 一番いちばんnumber one
  • 交番こうばんpolice box
  • 当番とうばんbeing on duty
  • 留守番るすばんhouse-watching
  • テレビ番組テレビばんぐみTV program

Also read つがい, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)釆 (sound) + 田 (meaning)

Original meaning is unclear.

Source: Wiktionary, 番 (rev. 92519474), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The lifeblood of the village! Imagine a patchwork of green rice fields stretching across a fertile valley.”
More in the 田 rice paddy story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
釆

Also built on 釆

田

Also built on rice paddy (田)

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番 gives its sound to

The family reading is ハン (han). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read バン

8 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fān

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

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

Pinyin fān 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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