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
- —放送者broadcaster; announcer; radiocaster
- —放送員announcer
- —放火癖pyromania
- —放火症pyromania
- —放水量amount of water discharged (e.g. from a dam); released water volume
- —飲み放題all you can drink; bottomless cup
- —衛星放送satellite broadcasting
- —公職追放expulsion of a public official and subsequent ban on participating in politics (by the SCAP during the allied occupation); purge
- —出し放題free flow of water
- —商業放送commercial broadcast
- —食べ放題all-you-can-eat; eating as much as one likes
- —制動放射bremsstrahlung; X-rays produced when fast electrons pass through matter
- —全国放送national network broadcast; nation-wide broadcast
- —中継放送relay broadcasting
- —二元放送broadcast in which participants speak from different stations
- —百花斉放let a hundred flowers blossom; Hundred Flowers campaign
- —不羈奔放free-spirited and uninhibited
- —放射線科radiology department
- —放射線学radiology
- —放任主義principle of laissez-faire