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新 kanji
new
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
シン
Kun readings
あたらしいあらたあら-にい-
Words with 新
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —新弟子new disciple; new student; new apprentice; newly accepted professional wrestlers
- —新十両wrestler newly promoted to juryo division
- —新入幕wrestler newly promoted to makuuchi division
- —新三役wrestler newly promoted to a san'yaku rank
- —新大関wrestler newly promoted to ozeki rank
- —新横綱wrestler newly promoted to grand champion
- —新制度new system
- —新陰流Shinkage-Ryu (style of Japanese fencing)
- —新発見new discovery; new invention
- —日本新new Japanese record
- —新素材advanced materials; new high-tech materials
- —国民新Kokumin Shinto; People's New Party (Japanese political party)
- —新冷戦new cold war
- —新首相new prime minister
- —新設校newly established school
- —新宗教new religion
- —新相撲"new" sumo (for women) conducted on a mat, wearing leotards instead of a mawashi
- —新人類new breed of humans (used to refer to the younger generation, who have different ideals and sensibilities)
- —新平民new commoner; former members of the lowest rank of the Japanese caste system after its abolition in 1871
- —新体験new experience
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