- 看板【かんばん】 - signboard, sign, billboard, hoarding, doorplate, draw, attraction, feature, highlight, spokesman, figurehead, reputation (of a shop), name, appearance, look, show, closing (for the day, esp. of a restaurant or bar), closing time 
- 鋼板【こうはん】 - steel sheet, steel plate 
- 黒板【こくばん】 - blackboard 
- 甲板【かんぱん】 - deck (of a ship) 
- 合板【ごうはん】 - veneer board, plywood, joint publication 
- 登板【とうばん】 - taking the mound, pitching a game 
- 板門店【パンムンジョム】 - Panmunjon (Korea), Joint Security Area (Korean Demilitarized Zone) 
- 鉄板【てっぱん】 - iron plate, steel plane, sure thing, certain winner 
- 降板【こうばん】 - leaving the mound, being knocked out, resignation, stepping down, withdrawing 
- 板ガラス【いたガラス】 - plate glass, sheet glass 
- 銅板【どうばん】 - sheet copper 
- 板前【いたまえ】 - chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine), cook, area of a kitchen that contains the chopping board 
- 基板【きばん】 - substrate, (computer) circuit board 
- 薄板【うすいた】 - laminate, veneer 
- 血小板【けっしょうばん】 - platelet, thrombocyte 
- 立て看板【たてかんばん】 - standing signboard, billboard, hoarding 
- 椎間板【ついかんばん】 - intervertebral disk 
- 戸板【といた】 - sliding door (esp. when removed from its frame and used for carrying things or people), large flounder 
- 平板【へいばん】 - flat board, slab, slat, plane table, monotonous, dull, flat, boring 
- 表看板【おもてかんばん】 - sign out in front, front (for someone)