Kanji1 / 5
幼 kanji
infancy, childhood
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ヨウ
Kun readings
おさない
Words with 幼
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —幼齢childhood
- —老幼(the) old and young
- —幼帝young emperor
- —幼鳥young bird; juvenile; chick
- —幼根radicle
- —幼者young child; infant
- —幼獣young animal (esp. a mammal)
- —幼体immature form (of an organism); young animal
- —幼保kindergartens and day-care centers
- —幼卒person who has completed no schooling beyond kindergarten; uneducated person; idiot; moron; person who attended a kindergarten as a child (as opposed to a nursery school)
- —幼木young tree
- —幼児語baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants
- —幼年期childhood; infancy
- —幼児期early childhood
- —幼芽鞘coleoptile; acrospire
- —成幼虫adult and larval stages (e.g. of an insect)
- —幼保園combined day-care center and kindergarten
- —幼児婚infant marriage
- —幼少時childhood
- —幼児食food for young children (after completion of weaning)