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
- —雷公thunder
- —触雷striking a naval mine; hitting an underwater mine
- —雷酸fulminic acid
- —轟雷roaring thunder; loud thunder; thunderclap
- —豪雷violent thunder; fierce lightning; thunder and lightning
- —機雷原minefield
- —魚雷艇torpedo boat
- —人工雷artificial lightning
- —地雷原minefield
- —避雷針lightning rod
- —水雷艇torpedo boat
- —地雷火(land) mine
- —火山雷volcanic thunderstorm
- —黒雷鳥black grouse (Tetrao tetrix); blackcock (male black grouse); greyhen (female black grouse)
- —地雷臭suspicion that something is inferior (game, product, etc.)
- —雷酸塩fulminating compound; fulminate
- —雷地予yu (hexagram 16 of the I Ching: enthusiasm)
- —沢雷随sui (hexagram 17 of the I Ching: following)
- —地雷復fu (hexagram 24 of the I Ching: return)
- —山雷頤yi (hexagram 27 of the I Ching: the corners of the mouth)