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灯 kanji
lamp, a light, light, counter for lights
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
トウ
Kun readings
ひほ-ともしびともすあかり
Variant forms
燈Words with 灯
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —瓦灯口low entrance (usually, but not always, to a teahouse) with a tiled archway overhead
- —放電灯discharge lamp
- —豆電灯small light
- —閃光灯flashing light
- —点灯管gas discharge lamp starter; fluorescent lamp starter; glow starter
- —常灯明continuously burning light (e.g. at a Buddhist altar)
- —電灯線electrical light wiring
- —室内灯room light; interior light
- —非常灯emergency light; emergency lamp
- —予告灯advance warning light (e.g. with road hazards, trains, elevators, etc.)
- —赤色灯red light (esp. on emergency vehicles)
- —読書灯reading light; reading lamp
- —花灯籠flower lantern; Bon festival lantern that is decorated with artificial flowers or has a floral pattern
- —点灯夫lamplighter; town employee who lit oil or gas streetlights
- —殺菌灯germicidal lamp
- —殺虫灯light trap; electric insect killer; bug zapper
- —街路灯street light; streetlamp
- —幻灯機magic lantern; slide projector
- —警告灯warning light
- —無影灯astral lamp; shadowless lamp; surgical light; operating light