The kanji 膳: meaning, readings and stroke order

膳

Meaning: meal tray, meal
On reading: ゼン zen
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 16
Radical: 肉 meat
Level: Level 10 · the last years of senior high

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: mâm cơm, bữa ăn (thiện)
Japanese: ごはんをのせるだい。しょくじ。
Korean: 밥상, 식사 (선)
Chinese: 餐盘、饭菜

Readings, words and example sentences

ゼン zen · on reading · less common

配はい膳ぜん
serving meals, setting out the food
配はい膳ぜんを手伝います。
I help set out the meals.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.