game board
Specifically the flat surface used for playing board games like shogi, go, or chess.
I unfolded the shogi board and set up the pieces.
Refers to a phonograph record or any flat circular storage medium. Often used in compounds like レコード盤.
Used as a suffix to indicate a flat, board-like object. Common in technical or descriptive compounds such as 基盤 (foundation/base), 看板 (signboard), or 鉄板 (iron plate).
He carefully collects old phonograph records.
The control panel of this machine broke down.
The two professional players faced off across the board.
My father played an old record and listened to the music.
The record got scratched and the sound skips.
foundation; basis; base; infrastructure · platform; system base
opening (in go, chess, etc.) · early stages; initial phase; outset
endgame; final stage; closing phase
middle stage; midpoint; middle phase · midfield (soccer)
disk; disc; platter · flying saucer; UFO · optical disc; disc media
ground; earth's crust; riverbed · foundation; base · power base; constituency; foothold
pelvis
keyboard; key array; piano keys
bedrock
out-of-print record; out-of-print CD
board surface; state of the board; game development · record surface
compass
suction cup; suction pad; sucker
placenta
huge rock; boulder · firmness; solidity; rock-solid
lathe
Go board
master recording; original disc
on the board
roadbed; subgrade · lines on a Go board; board size
abacus; soroban · calculation; reckoning; profit-and-loss calculation
skating rink; ice surface · silver plate; silver platter
shallow bowl for flower arrangement or bonsai
cave-in; roof collapse; rockfall
phonograph record; gramophone record
large demonstration board (for Go, Shogi, etc.)
milling machine
hanging wall
footwall
oblong tray stand; low table for food trays · weighing table; scale platform
Standard kanji spelling for all senses.
The kanji 盤 originally depicts a flat vessel or tray. Its modern meanings of 'board' and 'disc' derive from this sense of a flat, broad surface.