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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
- —自然放出spontaneous emission
- —伸び放題unchecked growth (esp. hair, foliage, etc.)
- —園庭開放opening up a kindergarten playground to young children and parents from the local area
- —育児放棄child neglect
- —放り込みthrow-in; sacrifice stone inducing shortage of liberties, false eye, connect-and-die or a snapback.
- —職場放棄walkout; strike; desertion
- —放物運動parabolic motion
- —放送協会broadcasting corporation
- —病的放火pyromania
- —解放戦線liberation front
- —解放軍報People's Liberation Army Daily (PRC); PLA daily
- —朝日放送Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
- —東京放送Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc.; TBS
- —放送大学Open University of Japan (formerly University of the Air)
- —テレ放題NTT unmetered telephone service
- —テレビ放送telecast
- —火炎放射器flamethrower
- —人民解放軍People's Liberation Army; PLA
- —放り上げるto hurl up
- —放射線科医radiologist