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The kanji 雷: meaning, readings and stroke order
雷
- Meaning
- thunder
- On reading
- ライ rai
- Kun reading
- かみなり kaminari
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 雨 rain
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- sấm, sét (lôi)
- Japanese
- かみなり。
- Korean
- 천둥 (뇌·뢰)
- Chinese
- 雷、打雷
Readings, words and example sentences
ライ rai · on reading · less common
雷雨
thunderstorm
夕方に 雷雨が ありました。
There was a thunderstorm in the evening.
かみなり kaminari · kun reading
雷
thunder, lightning
遠くで 雷が 鳴って います。
Thunder is rumbling far away.
Practise writing 雷 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 雷 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 7 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.