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看かん板ばん
Meanings
Noun
1. signboard; sign; billboard; hoarding; doorplate
It seems to be a rather old signboard.
2. draw; attraction; feature; highlight; spokesman; figurehead
He's the team's star player.
3. reputation (of a shop); name
4. appearance; look; show
5. closing (for the day, esp. of a restaurant or bar); closing time
Sorry, we're already closed for the night.
Alt. forms
看かん板ばん
98%
かんばん
1%
Kanji used
看
watch over
板
plank
Pitch accent
か
んばん
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Used in: 2885
Used in vocabulary (22 in total)
pretty girl who attracts customers to come inside a shop
standing signboard; billboard; hoarding
the two leading actors (in a play); the two star players; the two distinctive features; the two main items (attractions)
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Examples (21 in total)
Indeed, a signboard is necessary.
We were drinking until closing time.
Let's set up a sign here.
Look at the sign in front of you.
Sorry, we're already closed for the night.
That's it for today; we're closing up.
Signboards aren't just text, are they?
It seems to be a rather old signboard.
He's the team's star player.
The first thing that hits you is the bright red discount drugstore sign.
She's the face of this show.
I stood the sign back up after the wind blew it over.
There, multicolored signs were visible.
My father is nailing a sign to the post.
This ramen is the shop's signature dish.
Please use the big sign in front of the station as a landmark to get here.
The wooden sign was chipped away, but the letters could still be read somehow.
The building is small, but its sign stands out, so I don't think it's hard to find.
My, that's a movie billboard positively reeking of the Shōwa era, isn't it?
The sign hanging above the entrance of the gate read as follows.
And he points with his finger at the shop with the blue sign diagonally to the front left.