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
- —放牧場pasture; grazing land
- —放水砲water cannon
- —放水銃water cannon
- —放射率emissivity
- —放射脳obsession with radiation effects (esp. after the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima reactor problems); person obsessed with radiation; radiation brain
- —放熱性heat dissipation
- —放送枠time slot (on TV, radio, etc.)
- —性解放sexual liberation; emancipation from gender restrictions
- —見放題unlimited viewing; watching as much as one likes
- —追放者expellee; purgee; exile
- —放送室(radio or TV) studio
- —開放値f-number; focal ratio; f-ratio; f-stop
- —過放牧overgrazing
- —放射層radiation zone (within the sun)
- —放火犯arson; arsonist
- —放蕩家debauchee; profligate; fast liver; philanderer
- —放置子child left to their own devices (i.e. by neglectful parents); child allowed to run free
- —過放電overdischarge (of a battery)
- —充放電charge and discharge (of a battery)
- —解放値release value (of a ski binding)