皿

dish, plate; a helping; "dish" radical

Kanji 1307

Learn words for everything from segmented condiment dishes to ice cube trays. Find out how to count empty and full plates differently and to ask servers for share plates. See how corporations and nursery schools can be saucers, hear about ghostly torment associated with dishes, and learn where we keep dishes in the body. Also discover the role 皿 plays in 18 Joyo kanji.

Revision History:

Oct. 29, 2022: p. 2: In the sample sentence about not eating like an animal at a trough, I changed the Japanese and English a bit. The biggest problem was that つつく (to peck at (one’s food)) is for birds, and the trough suggests livestock, so つつく is no longer in the sentence. 

Feb. 12, 2022: 

• p. 2, Etymology Box: Updated the Henshall etymology and Sears link.
• p. 12: Updated all definitions of kanji featuring the 皿 radical or component, as well as their Henshall etymologies!
• p. 13: Added a link to the Kanshudo games.

Jan. 28, 2017: 

• p. 6: Removed a broken link.
• p. 7: Fixed a mistake in the discussion of めいめい.

June 12, 2015: Originally published.