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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

580 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: fly, skip (pages), scatter

Kunyomi: と.ぶ, と.ばす, -と.ばす

Onyomi: ヒ

飛

Radical

Radical: 飛

Reading: とぶ

Meaning: fly

Strokes: 9

⾶

Examples

Examples with audio

飛行機(ひこうき)   airplane

飛行場(ひこうじょう)   airport

飛行船(ひこうせん)   airship

飛躍する(ひやくする)   leap [v.i.]

飛ぶ(とぶ)   jump, fly [v.i.]

飛び込む(とびこむ)   jump in

飛び上がる(とびあがる)   jump up

飛ばす(とばす)   send, fly [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

飛 (ヒ) rook, fly ball

飛球 (ヒキュウ) fly (ball)

犠飛 (ギヒ) sacrifice fly

中飛 (チュウヒ) center fly, centre fly

Kunyomi Examples

飛ぶ (とぶ) to fly, to soar, to jump, to leap, to spring, to bound, to hop, to spatter, to scatter, to splash, to fly (e.g. of sparks), to hurry, to rush, to flee, to run off, to escape, to disappear, to vanish, to fade, to thin out, to break off, to come off, to fall off, to blow (of a fuse), to be sent out (of an order), to fly (of false rumours, catcalls, etc.), to come flying (of a punch, kick, etc.), to be missing (of a page, stitch, etc.), to skip, to jump (e.g. of a conversation)

飛ぶ鳥 (とぶとり) flying bird, soaring bird

飛ばす (とばす) to let fly, to make fly, to send flying, to blow off (e.g. in the wind), to launch, to fire, to hurl, to shoot, to skip over, to leave out, to omit, to drop (e.g. a stitch), to run fast, to drive fast, to gallop, to spray, to splash, to spatter, to say without reservation, to call out (e.g. a jeer), to rattle off (e.g. a joke), to spread (e.g. a rumour), to circulate, to send out (a message), to issue (e.g. an appeal), to transfer (to a less important post), to send away (e.g. to a provincial branch), to demote, to dispatch quickly (e.g. a reporter), to get rid of, to burn off (alcohol), to attack (e.g. with a leg manoeuvre), to do vigorously, to do roughly, to do energetically

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