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
- —機械水雷(sea) mine
- —火雷噬嗑shi he (hexagram 21 of the I Ching: biting through)
- —天雷无妄wu wang (hexagram 25 of the I Ching: innocence)
- —雷天大壮da zhuang (hexagram 34 of the I Ching: the power of the great)
- —雷沢帰妹gui mei (hexagram 54 of the I Ching: the marrying maiden)
- —雷山小過xiao guo (hexagram 62 of the I Ching: preponderance of the small)
- —仕掛け地雷booby trap
- —落雷にあうto be struck by lightning
- —魚雷発射管torpedo tube
- —水雷巡洋艦torpedo cruiser
- —地雷を踏むto step on a landmine; to really step in it; to screw up; to open up a can of worms
- —万雷の拍手thunderous applause; storm of applause
- —地雷除去作業mine-clearing operation
- —地雷敷設地帯mined strip (of land)
- —人間魚雷回天Ningen Gyorai Kaiten (1955 film)
- —ホーミング魚雷homing torpedo
- —剛雷violent thunder; fierce lightning; thunder and lightning
- —雷こうmercury fulminate
- —雷ていthunder
- —雷地豫yu (hexagram 16 of the I Ching: enthusiasm)