棚 – shelf, ledge, rack

12 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1594 in newspaper frequencyN5 vocabulary

The kanji 棚 means shelf, ledge, rack, mount, mantle, trellis. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ホウ (hou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is たな、-だな (tana, dana). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 木 (no. 75).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ホウ	hou
Kun’yomi	たな	tana
Kun’yomi	-だな	dana

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 木 (Kangxi radical 75). Components: 月・木.

Words using 棚

本棚ほんだなbookshelves棚たなshelf戸棚とだなcupboard

Example sentences

この本棚は組み立てが簡単です。

This bookcase is easy to assemble.

Tatoeba #219478

その本はいちばん上の棚に置いてください。

Put the book on the top shelf.

Tatoeba #206686

この本は戸棚の上です。

This book goes on the top shelf.

Tatoeba #219638

Kanji with the same radical

本東業来機権査案村果格検校構木条

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