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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)
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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
- —比放射能specific radioactivity
- —海賊放送pirate radio
- —３Ｋ放射3K radiation; cosmic background radiation
- —下放運動Rustication Movement; movement in China in 1957 to get people to move to the countryside
- —一挙放送broadcast marathon; transmitting sequential episodes of a radio or television series
- —構内放送announcement (e.g. in a train station)
- —仮釈放者parolee; person on parole
- —放電加工electrical discharge machining; electro-discharge machining; EDM
- —自己放任self-neglect
- —詰め放題stuffing a shopping container for a fixed price
- —相続放棄rejection of an inheritance; waiving of inheritance
- —改革開放Reform and Opening-up (Chinese economic policy)
- —放送事故TV blooper; broadcasting blunder
- —動物解放animal liberation
- —放射照度irradiance
- —解放戦争war of liberation
- —戦争放棄renunciation of war
- —試合放棄forfeiture of a match; throwing a game
- —輪換放牧rotational grazing
- —使い放題unlimited use; using as much as one likes