Kanji1 / 13
雷 kanji
thunder, lightning bolt
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ライ
Kun readings
かみなりいかずちいかづち
Variant forms
靁Words with 雷
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —機雷Popular(sea) mine
- —魚雷Populartorpedo
- —地雷Popularland mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; taboo topic; trigger; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap; pitfall
- —雷雨Popularthunderstorm; thundershower
- —雷鳴Popularthunder; thunderclap; crash of thunder
- —落雷Popularlightning strike; lightning bolt
- —雷thunder; lightning
- —遠雷distant thunder
- —襲雷lightning strike; lightning bolt
- —迅雷sudden peal of thunder; thunderclap
- —水雷torpedo; (sea) mine; underwater mine
- —天雷thunder
- —爆雷depth charge
- —百雷hundred thunderclaps
- —万雷heavy thunder
- —雷管detonator; primer; percussion cap
- —雷光lightning
- —雷鳥ptarmigan (Lagopus muta, esp. the Japanese ptarmigan, Lagopus muta japonica); grouse
- —雷電thunder and lightning
- —雷撃lightning strike; torpedo attack