bon
"wide dish or tray"


Character
Components
Japanese (Romanized)
Meanings




 bun, fun, bu





 sara
 divide, open up





 dish, plate, bowl (stylized derivative of a stemmed bowl with exaggerated lip)




 hachi, ya



 to, katana 		 splitting, dividing, eight (a readily divisible number)



 sword, cut



NOTES

Henshall, Kenneth G.  A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Rutland, VT and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company; 1988), characters no. 66, 181, 199, 1307, 1828.