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
- —放擲abandoning; giving up; quitting
- —放談free talk; irresponsible talk
- —放屁breaking wind; farting
- —放逸self-indulgence; looseness; dissoluteness
- —放校expulsion from school
- —放漫whimsy; looseness; indiscretion; laxity
- —放列battery (of artillery, cameras, etc.); barrage
- —放胆boldness; fearlessness
- —放埓licentious; profligate; dissipated; riotous; wild
- —放恣licentious; self-indulgent
- —放鳥setting free a bird; bird to be set free
- —放散radiation; diffusion
- —放歌loud singing
- —粗放rough; careless; reckless; slovenly
- —放光emission of light
- —放鷹falconry; hawking
- —放課dismissal of class (at the end of the day); recess (at school); break
- —放下discarding; abandoning; variety of street performance from the Middle Ages; casting off one's attachments (in Zen)
- —放線radiatio; radial structure; radiation (in anatomy, etc.)
- —放冷allowing to cool; cooling