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性 kanji
sex, gender, nature
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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On readings
セイショウ
Kun readings
さが
Words with 性
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —性格的personality-wise; by nature; characteristic
- —中性的androgynous; gender-neutral
- —人性論A Treatise of Human Nature (book by David Hume; publ. 1739-40)
- —神聖性sacredness; sanctity; holiness; divinity
- —惰性的out of habit; by inertia; by force of habit; mechanical
- —凶暴性brutality; ferocity; savagery
- —末梢性peripheral
- —無個性featurelessness; lack of individuality; blandness
- —包括性inclusivity; inclusiveness
- —比例性proportionality
- —直進性straight-line stability (of a vehicle); directional stability; straight-line propagation (e.g. of light or sound); straightness
- —悪性腫瘍malignant tumor; malignant tumour; malignancy; cancer
- —易感染性compromised
- —陰性反応negative reaction (in patient)
- —仮性近視false shortsightedness; pseudomyopia
- —価格性能cost effectiveness
- —既婚男性married man
- —口内性交oral sex; fellatio
- —高信頼性high reliability
- —婚外性交adultery; extra-marital intercourse