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看かん板ばん
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Meanings
Noun
1. signboard; sign; billboard; hoarding; doorplate
2. draw; attraction; feature; highlight; spokesman; figurehead
3. reputation (of a shop); name
4. appearance; look; show
5. closing (for the day, esp. of a restaurant or bar); closing time
Kanji used
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Pitch accent
かんばん
Used in vocabulary
立たて看かん板ばん
standing signboard; billboard; hoarding
Noun
一いち枚まい看かん板ばん
leading player; prima donna; box-office star; best item one has (to show); one's sole Sunday best; one's single area of expertise
Noun
看かん板ばん娘むすめ
pretty girl who attracts customers to come inside a shop
Noun
表おもて看かん板ばん
sign out in front; front (for someone)
Noun
金きん看かん板ばん
signboard with gold or gilt lettering; slogan; motto; main feature; star; ace
Noun
看かん板ばん屋や
sign maker
Noun
看かん板ばん倒だおれ
ostentatious
Noun
掛かけ看かん板ばん
hanging sign
Noun
看かん板ばん方ほう式しき
just-in-time inventory management; JIT
Noun
看かん板ばん大おお関ぜき
physically exceptional wrestler promoted straight to champion rank during Edo period
Noun
二に枚まい看かん板ばん
the two leading actors (in a play); the two star players; the two distinctive features; the two main items (attractions)
Noun
絵え看かん板ばん
signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)
Noun
Examples9
The sun had faded the lettering on the sign.
Let's set up a sign here.
The policeman tore the signboard from the house.
I am near-sighted, so I cannot make out what is written on that signboard.
Good wine needs no bush.
Look at the sign just ahead of you.