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Kanji Detail for 雷 - "thunder, lightning"

雷

  • Meaning

    雷 means "thunder, lightning."

    1. Thunder - A phenomenon producing light and sound through atmospheric electrical discharge.

  • Words using 雷

    • 地雷 じらい Listen land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic
    • 機雷 きらい Listen (sea) mine
    • 雷雨 らいう Listen thunderstorm; thundershower

  • Four-character idioms with 雷

    • 付和雷同 ふわらいどう Listen following blindly; following suit without reflection
    • 疾風迅雷 しっぷうじんらい Listen with lightning speed
    • 迅雷風烈 じんらいふうれつ Listen violent thunder and fierce wind; rapidly changing situation; swift action

  • Origin of 雷

    雨, rain, over 田 — in the oldest forms a stack of drums or rolling wheels: the sound that rolls under a storm. Thunder as the sky's drumming.

    How to remember it: Drums 田 rolling under the rain 雨 — the storm's percussion section: thunder.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 雷

    • Verified meaning: thunder, lightning
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あずま, いかずち, いかづち, かみなり)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 雷

    Given names 雷(あずま)Listen 雷(らい)Listen

    Surnames 雷(いかずち)Listen 雷(いかづち)Listen 雷(かみなり)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    thunder; lightning bolt

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    thunder

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Lei

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    thunder; surname

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The loud sound produced when electricity violently agitates the air. See "電" for reference. | Weapons loaded with explosives to blast fortifications and ships are also called 雷. As in 地雷 (land mine), 水雷 (naval mine).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    rai(ライ) ライ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ikaduchi(いかでゅち) いかでゅち

    ikazuchi(いかずち) いかずち

    kaminari(かみなり) かみなり

  • Strokes

    tip

    13 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    雨 (ame・amekammuri・amakammuri)

  • Related Keywords

    thunder lightning bolt electrical flash roar rumble storm discharge sound

Sentences including 雷

  • We have had a lot of thunder this summer.

  • We had a lot of thunder that summer.

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