Kanji1 / 12
弾 kanji
bullet, twang, flip, snap
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ダンタン
Kun readings
ひく-ひきはずむたまはじくはじけるただすはじきゆみ
Variant forms
彈Words with 弾
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —指弾criticism; blame; rejection; disdain; contempt; flick (of the finger)
- —弾雨hail of bullets
- —弾痕bullet hole; bullet mark
- —弾性elasticity
- —弾幕(artillery) barrage; bullet hell; curtain fire; screen-filling barrage of (usu. slow-moving) enemy bullets; barrage of scrolling comments (overlaid on an online video)
- —魔弾magic bullet; magic bullets
- —流弾stray bullet
- —擲弾grenade
- —凶弾assassin's bullet
- —弾奏performance; playing on stringed instruments
- —弾倉magazine (for a firearm); cylinder (of a revolver)
- —被弾being shot; being bombed
- —連弾four-handed performance (on the piano)
- —着弾impact (of a projectile); landing (of a bullet); striking
- —敵弾enemy bullet
- —装弾loading (a firearm)
- —弾片shrapnel; shell or bullet fragment
- —弾着hit (of a bullet, shell, etc.); impact
- —肉弾suicide attacker
- —榴弾high-explosive projectile