noun
bread; sweet bread or pastry
The ordinary word for bread. In Japanese it also covers many bakery items such as sweet buns and filled breads, especially in words like 菓子パン, あんパン, and クリームパン.
from Portuguese pão
朝食にトーストしたパンを食べた。
I ate toasted bread for breakfast.
おやつに甘いパンを一つ買った。
I bought a sweet pastry for a snack.
noun
bread as sustenance; daily bread; livelihood
A literary or translation-style metaphor for basic sustenance or earning a living. It is not the usual modern everyday word for livelihood; 生計 or 暮らし is more normal.
人はパンのみにて生くるものにあらず。
Man shall not live by bread alone.
古い翻訳調の文章では、「パンを得る」が生計を立てる意味で使われることがある。
In old, translation-like writing, パンを得る is sometimes used to mean making a living.
A subtype of パン: sweet bakery items such as filled buns or topped breads.
A more native and often literary word for food, sustenance, or livelihood; it overlaps with the metaphorical sense of パン but does not mean ordinary bread.
Borrowed from Portuguese pão, meaning bread. Older kanji spellings 麺麭 and 麪包, but modern Japanese normally writes the word in katakana as パン.