放

Meaning

放 centers on letting something go outward: setting free, releasing, emitting, or firing. The banish sense is a forceful release, and liberate is a freeing release.

• 放送ほうそう
  N4

  broadcasting; broadcast; program; announcement

• 放題ほうだい

  (doing) as one pleases; to one's heart's content; letting (something) go unchecked; leaving uncontrolled; leaving (something) to take its own course

• 解放かいほう
  N2

  release; unleashing; liberation; emancipation; setting free

• 放置ほうち
  N1

  leaving as is; leaving alone; leaving unattended; neglecting; abandoning

• 放つはなつ
  N1

  to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to hit (e.g. baseball); to break wind

• 開放かいほう
  N2

  opening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open

• 放棄ほうき
  N1

  abandonment; renouncement; renunciation; resignation; abdication; surrender; relinquishing; waiving; giving up

• 放射線ほうしゃせん

  radiation

• 放射ほうしゃ
  N1

  radiation; emission

• 放出ほうしゅつ
  N1

  emission; release; radiation; discharge; gush

• っ放しっぱなし

  leaving (on, open, unfinished, etc.)

• 追放ついほう
  N1

  exile; banishment; eviction; deportation; purge; expulsion; ousting

• 放射能ほうしゃのう
  N1

  radioactivity

• 放映ほうえい
  N1

  televising; broadcasting; airing

• 放課後ほうかご

  after school (at the end of the day)

• 放火ほうか
  N1

  arson; setting fire

• 釈放しゃくほう
  N1

  release; liberation; acquittal

• 手放してばなし

  not holding on; not using the hands; letting go one's hold

• 民放みんぽう

  commercial broadcast

• 放浪ほうろう

  wandering; roaming; drifting

• 放すはなす
  N3

  to release; to let go; to free; to set free; to let loose; to turn loose

• 放るほうる
  N2

  to throw; to fling; to hurl; to toss

• 放流ほうりゅう

  discharge (e.g. of water from a dam)

• 野放しのばなし

  pasturing (e.g. cattle); letting (an animal) run loose

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