Kanji

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:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: とぶ

Meaning: fly

Strokes: 9

Examples

Examples with audio

行機(ひこうき)   airplane

行場(ひこうじょう)   airport

行船(ひこうせん)   airship

躍する(ひやくする)   leap [v.i.]

ぶ(とぶ)   jump, fly [v.i.]

び込む(とびこむ)   jump in

び上がる(とびあがる)   jump up

ばす(とばす)   send, fly [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

rook

ヒキュウ fly (ball)

ギヒ sacrifice fly

チュウヒ center fly, centre fly

Kunyomi Examples

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)

ぶ鳥 とぶとり flying bird, soaring bird

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