Kanji 膳 Words: Meanings and Readings

膳

ぜん

counter for bowlfuls of rice

お膳

おぜん

four-legged tray for festive food

お膳立て

おぜんだて

setting the table

ご膳

ごぜん

meal

一の膳

いちのぜん

1st course at a banquet

一膳

いちぜん

bowl (of rice)

一膳飯

いちぜんめし

bowl of rice placed by the pillow of the recently deceased

一膳飯屋

いちぜんめしや

simple and inexpensive restaurant

陰膳

かげぜん

tray for absent one

下げ膳

さげぜん

clearing up leftover food and dishes

会席膳

かいせきぜん

elaborate dinner tray

客膳

きゃくぜん

low tray of food for guests

御膳そば

ごぜんそば

high-quality soba

御膳汁粉

ごぜんじるこ

shiruko made with strained red bean paste

四の膳

しのぜん

fourth tray (of food)

上げ膳

あげぜん

placing a meal in front of one

上げ膳据え膳

あげぜんすえぜん

taking care of everything

食膳

しょくぜん

dining table

据え膳

すえぜん

meal set before one

据え膳食わぬは男の恥

すえぜんくわぬはおとこのはじ

rejecting the advances of women is a man's shame

膳越し

ぜんごし

rudely reaching over one's serving tray to grab food behind it with one's chopsticks

膳所

ぜんしょ

kitchen

膳部

ぜんぶ

cook

膳立て

ぜんだて

setting the table

大膳

だいぜん

black-bellied plover

珍膳

ちんぜん

uncommon and delicious meal

内膳司

うちのかしわでのつかさ

office in charge of the Emperor's meals (ritsuryō system)

二の膳

にのぜん

side dish

配膳

はいぜん

setting a place

配膳室

はいぜんしつ

pantry

配膳人

はいぜんにん

waiter

陪膳

はいぜん

serving food (to a nobleman)

本膳

ほんぜん

extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs)

本膳料理

ほんぜんりょうり

extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs)

銘々膳

めいめいぜん

individual dining table

薬膳

やくぜん

medicinal cooking (based on traditional Chinese medicine)

和食膳

わしょくぜん

tray of traditional Japanese food