雷
Kana: かみなり
thunder
Example sentence
昨日の夜、雷が鳴りました。
きのうのよる、かみなりがなりました。
It thundered last night.
What 雷 means
雷 (かみなり) is a Japanese word meaning “thunder”. It belongs to the Time, Weather & Colors topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.