Kanji
N1 10 strokes Grade 6 freq #937

shoot, shine into, onto, archery

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

inch sun

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

radioactive
radiation
radioactivity
firing (esp. a rocket or missile); launching
injection; jab
range (of a rifle, missile, etc.)
firing; shooting
shooting to death
radiation; emission
reflection; reverberation

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to shoot dead; to bring down (an animal)
to shoot (arrow, bolt, dart)

Example sentences

In fact, the inhabitants have been exposed to radioactive rays.

The smaller the body, the more likely the person will suffer from the ill effects of radiation.

The rain is radiologically inactive this time.

The radioactivity leaked out of the nuclear power plant.