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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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Kun readings
あたらしいあらたあら-にい-
Words with 新
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —新規公開株newly listed stocks; new stock offering
- —超新星残骸supernova remnant; SNR
- —超新星爆発supernova explosion
- —新型うつ病new type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work
- —革新自治体reformist local government (often left-of-center); progressive local government
- —新ジャンルcheap, malt-free beer-like alcoholic beverage
- —新文化運動New Culture Movement (revolutionary movement in China, 1917-1921)
- —新民主主義New Democracy (concept devised by Mao Zedong)
- —新社会資本new social infrastructure
- —新世界秩序New World Order (conspiracy theory); NWO
- —維新の三傑three great nobles of the Restoration; three statesmen (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi) who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration
- —建武の新政Kenmu Restoration (1333-1336)
- —新仏教運動Dalit Buddhist movement; neo-Buddhist movement
- —新古典主義neoclassicism
- —新メニューnew menu item; new dish on a menu
- —新型コロナnovel coronavirus (esp. SARS-CoV-2)
- —新経済政策New Economic Policy (Soviet Union, 1922-1928); NEP
- —新即物主義Neue Sachlichkeit (German art movement); New Objectivity
- —新写実主義neorealism
- —新印象主義neo-impressionism
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