雷
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[edit] Translingual
[edit] Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 雨 ("rain") + phonetic 田 (abbreviation of 畾)
[edit] Han character
雷 (radical 173 雨+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一月田 (MBW), four-corner 10603)
- thunder
- a Chinese surname
[edit] References
- KangXi: page 1372, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42245
- Dae Jaweon: page 1881, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4060, character 2
- Unihan data for U+96F7
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
雷 (Yale leui4)
[edit] Japanese
[edit] Kanji
[edit] Readings
[edit] Etymology
かみ (神, kami, god) + なり (鳴り, nari, calling out, crying out. Nominalisation of 鳴る, なる, naru)
[edit] Noun
雷 (hiragana かみなり, romaji kaminari)
- thunder; a sound
- lightning; thunderbolt
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Compounds
- 雷鳥 (らいちょう, raichō) a rock ptarmigan, a snow grouse
- 雷神鳥 (らいじんちょう, raijinchō) a thunderbird
- 雷獣 (らいじゅう, raijū) a thunder beast
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] See also
- 雷雨: a thunderstorm
- 雷雲: a thundercloud
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
雷 (hangeul 뢰>뇌, revised roe>noe, McCune-Reischauer roe>noe, Yale loy>noy)
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Pronunciation
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[edit] Hanzi
雷 (pinyin léi (lei2), lèi (lei4), Wade-Giles lei2, lei4)
- thunder
- (military) mine
- a surname
[edit] Compounds
[edit] Vietnamese
[edit] Han character
雷 (lôi)
