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
- —偏波polarisation; polarization; polarised wave; polarized wave
- —波数wave number; wavenumber
- —調波harmonic (wave)
- —Ｐ波P-wave (e.g. of earthquake); primary wave
- —Ｓ波S-wave (e.g. of earthquake); secondary wave
- —波磔(of clerical script) horizontal lines ending in a noticeable triangular tail
- —波食wave erosion
- —波止breakwater; seawall; bulwark; mole; narrow stone structure for breaking incoming waves and loading goods on and off ships
- —蒼波blue wave; blue waves
- —波旬killer demon; demon who strives to destroy all goodness
- —停波end of transmission (radio, television, telephony, etc.); closure of transmission
- —砕波breaker; breaking wave; spilling breaker; surging breaker; wave breaking
- —波力wave power; wave force
- —全波all-wave (receiver); full wave
- —越波wave overtopping
- —丹波Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)
- —念波telepathy; thought waves
- —波宇batons (suit)
- —寧波Ningbo (China)
- —波束wave packet; wave train