Kanji 幡 Words: Meanings and Readings

棚幡

たなばた

Star Festival (held in July or August)

幡

はた

banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)

八幡

はちまん

Hachiman (God of War)

八幡宮

はちまんぐう

Shrine of the God of War

因幡

いなば

Inaba (former province located in the east of present-day Tottori Prefecture)

因幡の白兎

いなばのしろうさぎ

Hare of Inaba (Japanese myth)

黄幡

おうばん

Ōban

弓矢八幡

ゆみやはちまん

god of war

仙台七夕まつり

せんだいたなばたまつり

Sendai Tanabata Festival

南無八幡

なむはちまん

O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy

南無八幡大菩薩

なむはちまんだいぼさつ

O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy!

幡

ばん

pataka (banner)

八幡の不知藪

やわたのやぶしらず

Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend)

八幡神

はちまんじん

Hachiman (god of war)

八幡船

はちまんせん

Japanese pirate ship (of the Middle Ages)

八幡大学

やはただいがく

Yahata University

八幡大菩薩

はちまんだいぼさつ

Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (title of Hachiman due to Shinto-Buddhist syncretism)

八幡知らず

やわたしらず

labyrinth

幢

どう

long-handled Chinese spear bearing a small flag

幢幡

どうばん

hanging-banner used as ornament in Buddhist temples