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bento

single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine
Class type of: packed lunch, food Q380532

Facts

6 properties
Subclass of
packed lunch, food[1][2]
Part of
Japanese cuisine[3]
Country of origin
Japan[5]
Different from
meal box[7]
Native label
弁当[6]
Unicode character
🍱[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en bento box en bentō en bento en obentō en obento ar بنتو ar أوبنتو ar بينتو cs Bentó de Shoukadou Bentou de Shokado bento de Obentoo de Obento es bentô es bento es bentou es obento es obentô es obentō es obentou
🔖 Identifiers · 10
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Bento at Hanabishi, Koyasan.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/bento
Freebase ID
/m/012x5p
NDL Authority ID
00560608
NicoNicoPedia ID
お弁当
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
弁当
Subreddit
Bento
TasteAtlas ID
bento
Topic's main category
Category:Bento
Yle topic ID
18-255265
📚 Sources · 1
  • ndl_authorities as of 2026-10-01 · 1 statement · pdl-1.0 data obtained from Web NDL Authorities (National Diet Library)

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Library of Congress authority IDP244
sh99013856 2026-10-01 ndl_authorities (pdl-1.0) as of 2026-10-01
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Source
ndl_authorities
Edition
20261001 · as of 2026-10-01 · newer edition 20261103 landed
Licence
pdl-1.0
Credit
data obtained from Web NDL Authorities (National Diet Library)
Bronze
manifest sha256 6e048898660f1188…
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
data obtained from Web NDL Authorities (National Diet Library)
🔗 Connections
Subtypes 4
ekiben, Jūbako, Kyaraben, makunouchi
Subclass of 2
food, packed lunch
Country of origin 1
Japan
Part of 1
Japanese cuisine
Topic's main category 1
Category:Bento
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Bento
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  1. 23w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID → topic/bento
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Bento
    Different from → meal box
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/bento"
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