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放

JLPT N3 SL3 8 strokes Frequency: #288

Meanings

Set Free, Release, Fire, Shoot, Emit, Banish, Liberate

Radicals

攵

Decomposition

⿰方攵

Etymology

Pictophonetic: let go

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

4 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

5 diagonal right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

8 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ホウ hou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

こ ko

ほう hou

はな hana

Words Using This Kanji

509 words total

Other (20 words)

放縦ほうじゅう

self-indulgence

放送ほうそう

broadcasting

放電ほうでん

discharging (electrically; e.g. of a battery)

放念ほうねん

setting one's mind at ease

vagrant

arson

radioactive

radiology

emission

broadcasting station

urination

parabola

wild

wild

pasturing (e.g. cattle)

cable broadcast

having one's own way

to push away

to abandon

movements for sending young people to the countryside in China (1937, 1957, 1968)

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