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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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シン
Kun readings
あたらしいあらたあら-にい-
Words with 新
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —新甫new futures on the first trading session of the month
- —新譜newly released music; new release; new sheet music; new score
- —新例new example (precedent)
- —新歓welcoming new students, club members, etc.
- —新論new argument; new theory; new thesis; new debate
- —新古old and new (thing); old, but unused
- —新宮newly constructed shrine
- —新期new season (e.g. of TV programming); new term
- —新伝new style; new way; modern; ultra modern
- —新券new banknote
- —新仏spirit of someone on the first Obon after their death; the recently departed (and buried or cremated, etc.)
- —新貨new currency
- —新漬freshly pickled vegetables
- —新樹tree covered in fresh green leaves; newly green trees of early Summer
- —新円new yen (issued in 1946 to fight inflation)
- —新内type of jōruri recitation
- —新涼coolness of autumn; first cold air of autumn
- —新藁new straw; straw from the current year; rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away
- —新編new edition; new compilation; new formation (of a force, unit, etc.); new organization
- —新子very young fish (esp. a konoshiro gizzard shad); new geisha
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