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
- —新聞受けnewspaper slot; newspaper box
- —日本新党Japan New Party (Japanese political party, 1992-1994)
- —新婚初夜wedding night
- —新興都市boom town; emerging city; new town
- —有力新聞leading newspaper; prestigious newspaper
- —新着情報What's New (esp. on webpages, programs or newsletters)
- —新卒採用graduate recruitment; employment of new graduates
- —新聞紙上the press; (in the) newspapers
- —新社会人person who has recently entered the workforce (after completing education); new working adult
- —新聞報道newspaper report; press reporting
- —新型うつnew type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work
- —極超新星hypernova
- —毎日更新daily update; updating daily
- —昭和維新Shōwa restoration (call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s)
- —新聞売店newsstand; newspaper kiosk; newspaper stand
- —維新の党Japan Innovation Party (2014-2016)
- —言語新作neologism (invention of words that have meaning only to the person who uses them)
- —新食糧法Law for Stabilization of Supply, Demand and Prices of Staple Food
- —自動更新automatic update; automatic renewal
- —新年早々(at) the beginning of the New Year; early in the New Year
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