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生 kanji
life, genuine, birth
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
セイショウ
Kun readings
いきるいかすいけるうまれるうまれるうまれうまれうむおうはえるはやすきなまなま-なるなすむす-う
Words with 生
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —生菌live bacteria; live virus; viable fungus
- —晩生slow growth; slow ripening
- —湿生hydrarch
- —直生orthotropous
- —芽生gemmation
- —同生sibling
- —外生exogenous; heterogenous; ectotrophic; extraneous
- —内生endogeny
- —生祠monument (stela, hokora, etc.) commemorating a living god
- —生没birth and death; years of birth and death
- —生魚live fish; fresh fish
- —貧生impoverished student; poor student; poor person
- —抗生antibiosis
- —生着graft survival; survival of a transplant; engraftment
- —海生marine
- —私生childbirth from an unmarried couple
- —束生fasciculation
- —生格genitive case
- —湾生Japanese born in Taiwan during Japanese rule; campylotropous; sinuate
- —生繭raw cocoon