Kanji N3

放: set free, release, fire

放 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning set free, release, fire, written with 8 strokes. It is read ホウ (on) and はなす, はなつ, はなれる (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 3. You will see it in 放送 (ほうそう, broadcasting) and 放す (はなす, to release).

放

Meanings

  • set free
  • release
  • fire
  • shoot
  • emit
  • banish
  • liberate
Strokes8
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 3
Frequency#288 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ホウ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • はなす
  • -っぱなし
  • はなつ
  • はなれる
  • こく
  • ほうる

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 放

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 放送ほうそう

    broadcasting; broadcast; program; announcement

    JLPT N4
  • 放すはなす

    to release; to let go; to free; to set free

    JLPT N3
  • 開放かいほう

    opening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open

    JLPT N2
  • 解放かいほう

    release; unleashing; liberation; emancipation

    JLPT N2
  • 追放ついほう

    exile; banishment; eviction; deportation; purge

    JLPT N1
  • 放るほうる

    to throw; to fling; to hurl; to toss

    JLPT N2
  • 放出ほうしゅつ

    emission; release; radiation; discharge; gush

    JLPT N1
  • 放射能ほうしゃのう

    radioactivity

    JLPT N1

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