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雷

JLPT N1 13 strokes Frequency: #1491

Meanings

Thunder, Lightning Bolt

Radicals

雨

Decomposition

⿱雨田

Etymology

Ideographic: A storm 雨 over the fields 田

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

4 vertical right-to-left

5 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

6 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

7 dot right-to-left

8 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

9 vertical bottom-to-top

10 corner bottom-to-top

11 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

12 horizontal bottom-to-top

13 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ライ rai

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

いかづち ikazuchi

かみなり kaminari

いかずち ikazuchi

Words Using This Kanji

87 words total

Other (20 words)

(sea) mine

torpedo boat

torpedo

booby trap

with lightning speed

lightning strike

artificial lightning

sudden peal of thunder

水雷すいらい

torpedo

地震雷火事親父じしんかみなりかじおやじ

things to fear: earthquakes, thunder, fires and, most of all, fathers

minefield

land mine

thunder

depth charge

lightning rod

hundred thunderclaps

following blindly

heavy thunder

thunderstorm

minefield

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