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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On readings
シン
Kun readings
あたらしいあらたあら-にい-
Words with 新
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —新婚生活newly-married life
- —新進作家rising novelist
- —新人歌手new singer
- —新聞配達(newspaper) carrier; newspaper (delivery) boy (girl); new
- —新聞発表(issuing) a press release
- —新興企業start-up company
- —大化改新Taika Reforms (645 CE)
- —新チームnew team
- —新型肺炎novel pneumonia (esp. COVID-19)
- —最終更新last update; last updated
- —新旧交代replacing the old with the new; the old giving way to the new
- —人心一新complete change in public sentiment; leading the thought of the people to an entirely different channel
- —面目一新undergoing a complete change in appearance; changing something out of all recognition; a rise in one's reputation
- —ごろ新聞racketeering newspaper; journal that demands money in return for favourable articles
- —気分一新complete change of mood; thoroughly refreshing one's spirits
- —更始一新undergo a complete change; turn over a new leaf
- —人心刷新radically change public sentiment; leading the thought of the people to an entirely different channel
- —新聞学問knowledge gained (information acquired) from newspapers
- —新聞辞令appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation
- —外字新聞foreign-language newspaper
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