Translingual

      Etymology

      Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic ("rain") + phonetic (abbreviation of )

      Han character

      (radical 173 +5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一月田 (MBW), four-corner 10603)

      1. thunder
      2. a Chinese surname

      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

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      Cantonese

      Hanzi

      (Yale leui4)


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      Japanese

      Kanji

      (common “Jōyō” kanji)

      Readings

      Etymology

      かみ (, kami, god) + なり (鳴り, nari, calling out, crying out. Nominalisation of 鳴る, なる, naru)

      Noun

      (hiragana かみなり, romaji kaminari)

      1. thunder; a sound
      2. lightning; thunderbolt

      Synonyms

      Compounds

      Derived terms

      • 雷が落ちる

      See also


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      Korean

      Hanja

      (hangeul 뢰>뇌, revised roe>noe, McCune-Reischauer roe>noe, Yale loy>noy)


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      Mandarin

      Pronunciation

      Hanzi

      (pinyin léi (lei2), lèi (lei4), Wade-Giles lei2, lei4)

      1. thunder
      2. (military) mine
      3. a surname

      Compounds


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      Vietnamese

      Han character

      (lôi)

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