膳

• 読み: ぜん
• ローマ字: zen
• 漢字の分解: 膳 (zen) — meal, tray, serving table
• 発音: /zeɴ/

意味

Small dining table; meal tray; a set meal. Also used as a counter for meals.

A noun referring to a traditional Japanese individual dining tray or small low table used to serve food. Also functions as a counter for servings of rice or meals: 一膳 (ichizen, one serving/one pair of chopsticks). Common compounds: お膳 (ozen, meal tray, polite), お膳立て (ozendate, making preparations). Evokes traditional Japanese dining culture where each person receives their own tray.

例文

1. お膳の上にきれいに料理が並んでいた。
2. ご飯を一膳おかわりした。
3. 旅館で出されたお膳は豪華だった。

使い方ガイド

場面: traditional dining, ryokan, cooking

トーン: traditional

起源と歴史

The kanji 膳 combines 月 (flesh/food radical) and 善 (good), suggesting a well-prepared food arrangement. Originally referred to the act of preparing food before evolving to mean the tray itself.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal