8 strokes

set free, release, fire, shoot, emit, banish, liberate

Kunはな.す、-っぱな.し、はな.つ、はな.れる、こ.く、ほう.る
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Radicals

Common words

  • 解放かいほう
    release, unleashing, liberation, emancipation, setting free, deallocation (of computer memory)
  • 放つはなつ
    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), to set fire to
  • 放すはなす
    to release, to let go, to free, to set free, to let loose, to turn loose, to add (pieces of eggplant, potato, etc.) to water, broth, etc.
  • 放送ほうそう
    broadcasting, broadcast, program, announcement
  • 釈放しゃくほう
    release, liberation, acquittal
  • 追放ついほう
    exile, banishment, eviction, deportation, purge, expulsion, ousting, elimination (e.g. of poverty), removal
  • 放置ほうち
    leaving as is, leaving alone, leaving to chance, neglecting, abandoning
  • 手放すてばなす
    to let go of, to release, to drop, to part with (e.g. a possession), to relinquish, to spare, to sell, to send away (e.g. one's child), to let go, to part with, to temporarily stop working
  • 放棄ほうき
    abandonment, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, abdication, surrender, relinquishing, waiving, giving up
  • 放るほうる
    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
  • 放火ほうか
    arson, setting fire
  • 放題ほうだい
    (doing) as one pleases, to one's heart's content, letting (something) go unchecked, leaving uncontrolled, leaving (something) to take its own course
  • 放課後ほうかご
    after school (at the end of the day)
  • 放るはなる
    to get free, to be freed, to be released
  • 放るひる
    to expel (from the body), to excrete, to defecate, to give birth
  • 放るまる
    to excrete (faeces, urine)
  • 放射線ほうしゃせん
    radiation
  • 放出ほうしゅつ
    release, emission, ejection
  • 開放かいほう
    opening (a door, window, etc.), leaving open, opening up (e.g. to the public), allowing (public) access
  • 放射能ほうしゃのう
    radioactivity