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
- —遮光幕blackout curtain; light-blocking curtain; lampshade; shade
- —人工光artificial light
- —準光速near-light speed; sub-light speed; speed approaching light
- —外光派pleinairism; pleinairisme; cult of the open air; painter of pleinairisme; pleinairist
- —変旋光mutarotation
- —旋光度(angle of) optical rotation
- —光学軸optic axis (of a crystal); optical axis
- —蝋光沢waxy lustre; waxy luster
- —無光沢dull lustre; dull luster; matt (appearance)
- —地震光earthquake light; EQL
- —観光省Ministry of Tourism (Brazil, India, New Zealand, etc.); Department of Tourism (South Africa, Philippines, etc.)
- —露光計light meter; exposure meter
- —半光沢semigloss; semimatte; semimat
- —光学系optical system
- —背光性negative heliotropism
- —光学式optical
- —観光庁Japan Tourism Agency; JTA
- —観光船sightseeing boat; tourist boat; tour boat
- —光明石kōmeiseki; kōmei stone; slightly radioactive stone used in onsens, traditional medicine, etc.
- —耐光性light resistance; light fastness