藩 — kanji meaning “clan”
藩
clan, enclosure
- Meanings
- clan, enclosure
- On'yomi
- ハン (han)
- Kun'yomi
- —
- Strokes
- 18
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1896 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 140
- Chinese reading
- fán, fān — Chinese character page
Words with 藩
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 藩主 | はんしゅ hanshu | feudal lord; daimyo |
| 藩士 | はんし hanshi | retainer of a daimyo |
| 藩政 | はんせい hansei | domain administration (Edo period); clan administration |
| 脱藩 | だっぱん dappan | becoming a lordless samurai |
| 廃藩置県 | はいはんちけん haihanchiken | abolition of the han system and establishment of prefectures (1871) |
| 藩校 | はんこう hankou | han school; school established by a daimyo for educating the children of the domain's retainers |
| 藩邸 | はんてい hantei | residence maintained by a daimyo in Edo |
| 列藩 | れっぱん reppan | many feudal domains |
| 支藩 | しはん shihan | subsidiary domain; sub-fief |
| 藩閥 | はんばつ hanbatsu | clanship; clannism; clan favoritism |
| 藩札 | はんさつ hansatsu | paper money issued by a feudal domain |
| 親藩 | しんぱん shinpan | feudal domain owned by a Tokugawa family branch |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.