# 番 — Number In A Series

Frequency rank 312 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 呼 (Call), less common than 半 (Half).

- On’yomi: ばん
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 田 Field (Kangxi 102)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

Rice (rice) sits on top and a rice paddy (rice paddy) spreads below — rice grows in the rice paddy in numbered rows, each row a number in a series, counted and catalogued.

In words:

- 番号 ばんごう — number
- 番組 ばんぐみ — television or radio program
- 交番 こうばん — police box

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