Kanji1 / 13
新 kanji
new
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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シン
Kun readings
あたらしいあらたあら-にい-
Words with 新
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —万年新造woman of perennial youth
- —明治維新Meiji Restoration (1868)
- —新じゃがnew potatoes
- —御用新聞pro-government newspaper; newspaper that curries favour with the government
- —新制大学university (operated under post-war guidelines)
- —新制高校high school (operated under post-war guidelines)
- —新制中学junior high school (operated under post-war guidelines)
- —新品同様as good as new
- —新案特許patent on a new device
- —新興宗教new religion
- —革新主義progressivism
- —革新政党reformist party; progressive party
- —温故知新developing new ideas based on study of the past; learning from the past
- —英字新聞English-language newspaper
- —斬新奇抜novel; unconventional; cutting-edge
- —新熱帯区Neotropical (region); Neotropics
- —新年の寿New Years greetings
- —学校新聞school paper
- —競馬新聞racing form; racing (news)paper
- —新刊紹介book review
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