Kanji1 / 8
波 kanji
waves, billows, Poland
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ハ
Kun readings
なみ
Words with 波
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —雨波貝Sakhalin surf clam (Pseudocardium sachalinense)
- —濾波器filter; wave filter
- —ピー波P-wave (e.g. of earthquake); primary wave
- —エス波S-wave (e.g. of earthquake); secondary wave
- —波布草coffee senna (Senna occidentalis)
- —波々迦Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana)
- —佐波理copper alloy with traces of silver, lead, or tin
- —透っ波spy (working under a samurai in the Warring States period); thief; lie; liar
- —清海波seigaiha; wave pattern
- —第二波second wave
- —第１波first wave
- —第三波third wave
- —弖爾乎波postpositions (in Japanese); particles
- —天爾乎波postpositions (in Japanese); particles
- —多羅波蟹red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus)
- —波瀾曲折very involved and troublesome situation; complicated twists and turns
- —伊呂波順iroha order; traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary (based on a Buddhist poem)
- —伊呂波楓Japanese maple (Acer palmatum)
- —ベータ波beta wave
- —伊呂波歌iroha poem