Kanji1 / 8
放 kanji
set free, release, fire, shoot, emit, banish, liberate
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ホウ
Kun readings
はなす-っぱなしはなつはなれるこくほうる
Words with 放
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3放送Popularbroadcasting; broadcast; program; announcement
- N2解放Popularrelease; unleashing; liberation; emancipation; setting free; deallocation (of computer memory)
- N2開放Popularopening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open; opening up (e.g. to the public); allowing (public) access
- N2放るPopularto throw; to fling; to hurl; to toss; to neglect; to abandon; to leave alone; to give up on; to leave undone; to leave unfinished
- N1追放Popularexile; banishment; eviction; deportation; purge; expulsion; ousting; elimination (e.g. of poverty); removal
- N1放棄Popularabandonment; renouncement; renunciation; resignation; abdication; surrender; relinquishing; waiving; giving up
- N1放射Popularradiation; emission
- N1放出Popularemission; release; radiation; discharge; gush; release (of goods, a player from a team, etc.)
- N1放置Popularleaving as is; leaving alone; leaving unattended; neglecting; abandoning
- N1放射能Popularradioactivity; radiation; radioactive material
- N1放り込むto throw into; to toss into; to throw-in; to play a throw-in
- N1放り出すto throw out; to drop; to toss; to dump; to abandon; to neglect; to leave behind; to give up; to dismiss; to fire; to expel
- —釈放Popularrelease; liberation; acquittal
- —放映Populartelevising; broadcasting; airing
- —放火Populararson; setting fire
- —放水Populardischarge of water (from a river, dam, etc.); drainage; spraying water (on); hosing
- —放題Popular(doing) as one pleases; to one's heart's content; letting (something) go unchecked; leaving uncontrolled; leaving (something) to take its own course
- —放逐Popularexpulsion; ousting; ejection; dismissal; banishment
- —放任Popularnoninterference; leaving something to take its own course; giving someone a free hand with something
- —放牧Popularpasturage; grazing