Keyword
release
- set free
- fire
- shoot
- emit
- banish
- liberate
- Frequency
- #288
- Strokes
- 8
- Grade
- 3
- JLPT (old)
- N2
- Heisig
- 535
Readings
ホウ46%
ほう46%
はな7%
Mnemonic
The only way out of the folding chair that snapped shut on your fingers is to release the latch, screaming, before it eats a thumb.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
開放
opening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open; opening up (e.g. to the public); allowing (public) access
Noun
放題
(doing) as one pleases; to one's heart's content; letting (something) go unchecked; leaving uncontrolled; leaving (something) to take its own course
Suffix
解放
release; unleashing; liberation; emancipation; setting free; deallocation (of computer memory)
Noun
放棄
abandonment; renouncement; renunciation; resignation; abdication; surrender; relinquishing; waiving; giving up
Noun
追放
exile; banishment; eviction; deportation; purge; expulsion; ousting; elimination (e.g. of poverty); removal
Noun
放る
to throw; to fling; to hurl; to toss; to neglect; to abandon; to leave alone; to give up on; to leave undone; to leave unfinished
Godan verb
放つ
to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to hit (e.g. baseball); to break wind; to set free; to release; to let loose; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent); to send out (a person to carry out a duty); …
Godan verb
手放し
not holding on; not using the hands; letting go one's hold; lack of reserve (in expressing one's emotions); lack of restraint; openly (saying)
Noun