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
- —光電池photovoltaic cell; photoelectric cell; photocell; solar cell
- —真珠光pearl iridescence
- —旋光角(angle of) optical rotation
- —単色光monochromatic light
- —点光源positional light source
- —投光器floodlight; floodlight projector
- —南極光aurora australis; southern lights
- —分光学spectroscopy
- —分光器spectroscope; spectrograph
- —変光星variable star
- —北極光northern lights; aurora borealis
- —夜光虫Noctiluca scintillans (luminescent species of dinoflagellate)
- —旋光性optical activity
- —感光板sensitive or sensitized plate (sensitised)
- —発光体luminous body
- —感光度photographic sensitivity
- —感光紙photosensitive paper
- —逆光線backlight (in photography, etc.); illumination (of the subject) from behind
- —御来光sunrise viewed from the top of a high mountain; the rising sun
- —昼光色daylight color; daylight colour