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
- —放浪Popularwandering; roaming; drifting
- —奔放Popularwild; uninhibited; extravagant; rampant
- —放流Populardischarge (e.g. of water from a dam); release of fish (into a river, pond, etc.); stocking with fish (a river, etc.); banishment; exile
- —民放Popularcommercial broadcast
- —放課後Popularafter school (at the end of the day)
- —放射性Popularradioactive
- —放射線Popularradiation
- —公共放送Popularpublic broadcasting (e.g. NHK, BBC)
- —民間放送Popularcommercial broadcasting
- —下放movements for sending young people to the countryside in China (1937, 1957, 1968)
- —豪放largehearted; frank; unaffected
- —放言careless remark
- —放縦self-indulgence; looseness; dissolution; licence; license
- —放心absentmindedness; preoccupation; being in a daze; setting one's mind at ease; ceasing to worry; relief; loss of one's moral sense; straying from virtue
- —放電discharging (electrically; e.g. of a battery); electrical discharge; discharge
- —放蕩dissipation; prodigality; debauchery
- —放尿urination
- —放熱radiant heat; heat radiation; heat dissipation; thermolysis
- —放念setting one's mind at ease; not feeling that one need be concerned (about something); feeling free to disregard (something)
- —放免release (from custody); discharge; liberation; setting free; letting go; letting off; acquittal