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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
- —切組灯籠絵paper diorama (made from a woodblock print)
- —景徳伝灯録Jingde Chuandeng Lu (Record of the Transmission of the Lamp Published in the Jingde Era, 1004 CE Buddhist scripture)
- —電灯をつけるto turn on an electric light; to switch on a light
- —ナトリウム灯sodium-vapor lamp; sodium-vapour lamp
- —走馬灯のように駆け巡るto flash before one's eyes (of memories, etc.)
- —灯芯(lamp) wick
- —灯篭garden lantern; hanging lantern
- —御灯lighted lamp (or candle, etc.) provided as a religious offering
- —瓦灯pottery lantern (curved conical shape)
- —竿灯Kanto Festival (Akita); street light
- —石灯篭stone lantern
- —螢光灯fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light; person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake
- —げん灯running lights; sidelight; side light
- —瓦斯灯gas light; gas lamp
- —灯ろうgarden lantern; hanging lantern
- —御神灯light used as a religious offering; paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)
- —ご神灯light used as a religious offering; paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)
- —火灯窓bell-shaped window (usu. in temples)
- —鈴蘭灯street light shaped as a lily-of-the-valley
- —けい光灯fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light; person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake