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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
- —雷名fame; renown; great name
- —雷雲thundercloud
- —春雷spring thunder
- —雷火flash of lightning; fire caused by lightning
- —雷同following blindly
- —雷神god of thunder; Raijin (god of thunder)
- —雷魚blotched snakehead (Channa maculata); northern snakehead (Channa argus)
- —雷獣beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt (in Chinese mythology)
- —熱雷heat thunderstorm
- —界雷frontal thunderstorm
- —渦雷cyclonic thunder-storm
- —雷竜brontosaurus; apatosaurus
- —雷汞mercury fulminate
- —疾雷sudden and violent thunder
- —寒雷winter thunder; thunderstorm accompanying a cold front
- —雷丸raigan (Omphalia lapidescens); parasitic fungus which grows on bamboo, used in Chinese medicine
- —雷鈷ground stone tool from the late Jomon period
- —雷声sound of thunder; large, thunderous voice
- —雷霆thunder
- —雷発outbreak of thunder