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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)

detonator

lightning strike

lightning

to be struck by lightning

雷鳥らいちょう

ptarmigan (Lagopus muta, esp. the Japanese ptarmigan, Lagopus muta japonica)

雷電らいでん

thunder and lightning

lightning

snarling old man

fame

lightning strike

thundercloud

spring thunder

torpedo boat

flash of lightning

god of thunder

following blindly

blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)

雷獣らいじゅう

beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt (in Chinese mythology)

熱雷ねつらい

heat thunderstorm

機雷原きらいげん

minefield

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