Entry
  1. Noun

    pan; pot

    Polite (teineigo) languagesee

  2. transgender man (female-to-male); butch lesbian; female transvestite

    Usually written using kana aloneSlangoften derog.

  3. maidservant; housemaid

    Archaicorig. used as a name for female servants in Edo-period literature

  4. night work

    Archaic

Also written 御鍋【おなべ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pot, pan, kettle

Kun
なべ
On
Strokes
17
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
1810 of 2500
Radical
gold
WaniKani
Level 35

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Dictionary and index codes (20)
CodeReference
1-8-9SKIP code
8a9.13The Kanji Dictionary
8712.7Four corner code
2849deroo
934bUnicode hex code
1-38-73JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4892Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6315New Nelson (John Haig)
1752New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2202Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1564Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2757Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1388Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1728A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2650Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
40603Morohashi
1950Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
guo1Pinyin reading
gwaKorean reading
35WaniKani level