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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)
放し飼い はなしがい

free-range rearing

放校 ほうこう

expulsion from school

放逸 ほういつ

self-indulgence

放漫 ほうまん

whimsy

放談 ほうだん

free talk

公共放送 こうきょうほうそう

public broadcasting (e.g. NHK, BBC)

放牧地 ほうぼくち

grazing land

放浪癖 ほうろうへき

vagrant habits

手放し てばなし

not holding on

解き放す ときはなす

to liberate

荒れ放題 あれほうだい

left in a state of neglect

抜き放す ぬきはなす

to unsheathe one's sword

貝殻追放 かいがらついほう

ostracism

音声多重放送 おんせいたじゅうほうそう

multiplex broadcast or transmission

中央放送局 ちゅうおうほうそうきょく

central broadcasting station

実況放送 じっきょうほうそう

on-the-spot or live broadcast

勝ち放す かちはなす

to win continuously

取り放題 とりほうだい

as much as one can take or carry away

放火罪 ほうかざい

(the crime of) arson

下放 かほう

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

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