Kanji1 / 6
光 kanji
ray, light
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
コウ
Kun readings
ひかるひかり
Variant forms
灮炗Words with 光
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —光周性photoperiodism; photoperiodicity
- —閃光灯flashing light
- —夜光貝great green turban (Turbo marmoratus)
- —観光業tourist trade; travel industry; tourist business; tourist enterprise
- —測光器photometer
- —光沢剤brightening agent; glazing agent; polishing agent
- —発光菌photogenic fungi; luminous fungi; Photobacterium
- —大気光airglow; nightglow
- —緑閃光green flash (optical phenomenon occurring shortly after sunset or before sunrise)
- —山頂光alpenglow; alpine glow
- —夜光雲noctilucent clouds
- —青色光blue light (e.g. of LED); blue glow; cadmium blue
- —光沢紙glossy paper; enamelled paper; coated paper
- —自然光natural light; unpolarized light
- —光琳派Korin school; Rimpa school (of painting, 17th-early 20th century)
- —走光性phototaxis
- —分光法spectroscopy
- —光分解photolysis; photodecomposition; photodissociation
- —超光速faster-than-light speed; super luminal speed
- —透光性translucency