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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
- —新香pickled vegetables; pickles
- —新茶first tea of the season
- —新訳new translation; post-Xuanzang Chinese translation (i.e. mid 7th century onward)
- —新選newly compiled; newly edited; newly elected; newly returned
- —新刀newly forged sword; sword made after the year 1615
- —新月new moon; first day of the lunar month; crescent moon
- —新地new (residential) area (esp. built on reclaimed land during the Edo period); newly-opened region; red-light district; newly-acquired territory
- —新宅new house; branch family
- —新来newly arrived; new (arrival)
- —新兵new recruit; conscript
- —新柄new pattern
- —新修new compilation; new edition
- —新酒new brew of sake
- —新造construction; building; newly built ship; new boat; (another's) wife (usu. young); young, unmarried woman; wife of a samurai or wealthy tradesman; young prostitute who has just started working (as an assistant to an older prostitute)
- —新釈new interpretation
- —新道new road
- —新開opening (of uncultivated land)
- —新暦the solar calendar; the Gregorian calendar
- —新穀new grain
- —新患new patient
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