Level III of XX on the frequency path
Frequency rank 312 / 2,608
Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.
More common than 呼 (Call), less common than 半 (Half).
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.
番 is rank 312 of 2,608 in published Japanese.
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