雷 — thunder, lightning bolt

かみなり雷 thunder

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes weather

U+96F7 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1491 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #454 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

thunder
lightning bolt

word

かみなり kaminari Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

雷(かみなり) kaminari thunder

らい rai On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

地(じ) 雷(らい) jirai land mine

Appears in idioms

付和雷同四字熟語

adhere, harmony, thunder, same

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

あめ雨 rain #173

た田 rice field #102

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#173 雨 rain