浪

wandering, waves, billows, reckless, unrestrained

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ロウ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

N/A

Nanori (名乗り)

なになみ

Stroke Order

10 / 10

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:10

JLPT:N1

Frequency:1508

Vocabulary

ロウ

Word	Reading	Meaning
浮浪者	フロウシャ	vagrant; vagabond; tramp; homeless person; hobo; bum
放浪	ホウロウ	wandering; roaming; drifting
浪人	ロウニン	ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; wanderer; drifter
浪費	ロウヒ	waste; extravagance
波浪	ハロウ	waves; billows; surge

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
高浪	たかなみ	high waves; heavy seas
津浪	つなみ	tsunami; tidal wave
浪	なみ	wave; billow; ripple; breaker; swell; ups and downs; (something) advancing step by step; (something) surging forward inopposably; succession of changes; tendency; (new) wave
浪打際	なみうちぎわ	water's edge; beach; foreshore
浪花節	なにわぶし	naniwabushi; variety of sung narrative popular during the Edo period

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These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

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