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
- —放銃discarding a tile that becomes another player's winning tile
- —放学expulsion from school; dismissal of class (at the end of the day)
- —放楽pastime; entertainment; amusement; pleasure
- —放生release of captive animals (birds, fish, etc.)
- —放精release of sperm (of fish, amphibians, etc.)
- —放卵releasing eggs (esp. of fish, amphibians, etc.); spawning
- —放飼free-range rearing; letting (animals) roam freely; pasturing; releasing (insects) into the wild
- —放物parabolic
- —仮釈放releasing on parole; conditional release
- —軍放送military broadcast
- —再放送rebroadcasting; rerun
- —出放題free flow (of water); random talk; nonsense
- —生放送live broadcast
- —放水路flood bypass; floodway; discharge channel; diversion channel
- —放送局broadcasting station; broadcaster
- —放物線parabola
- —放浪者vagrant; vagabond; drifter
- —野放図wild; unruly; arrogant; endless (e.g. spending); uncontrolled; rampant (e.g. weeds)
- —し放題having one's own way; giving free rein to one's desires; acting as one pleases
- —放牧地grazing land; pasture