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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
- —新エネalternative energy
- —新天地new land; new world; new sphere of activity
- —新海苔first dried nori after the winter
- —新小豆freshly harvested adzuki beans
- —新胡麻newly harvested sesame seeds
- —新豆腐tofu made from freshly harvested soy beans
- —新そばsoba made from freshly harvested buckwheat
- —ご新規new customer
- —新知識new knowledge; up-to-date information; advanced ideas
- —新境地new ground (science, art, etc.); new front; new scope; frontier
- —新かやshin kaya; imitation kaya; any kind of cheaper wood that resembles kaya, used for go and shogi boards
- —新甘泉shinkansen pear; hybrid nashi developed in Tottori prefecture
- —新聞学newspaper studies; media studies
- —新象牙ivory-like plastic (used for mahjong tiles, shogi pieces, etc.)
- —新大陸New World (esp. the Americas, but also Australasia)
- —新常態new normal (state of new economic or financial conditions)
- —新入荷new arrivals (of products etc.); new consignment
- —新鉱物new mineral
- —新型車new car model; late-model car
- —人新世Anthropocene
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