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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)
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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
- —学生鞄school bag (usu. handheld or hung from the shoulder); schoolbag
- —生合成biosynthesis
- —生産国country of origin; country of manufacture
- —生活感lived-in feel (e.g. of a room); sense of life; hints of daily life
- —初生値initial ratio
- —生活史life cycle; life history
- —生前葬funeral performed for someone while they are alive; living funeral
- —自生地wildlife growth area; natural habitat
- —生命感feeling of vitality; sense of being alive
- —人生初(for the) first time in one's life
- —現役生student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
- —生成器generator (e.g. signal generator)
- —神学生theological student; seminary student
- —生死観one's view of life and death; attitude toward living and dying
- —原生地wilderness; virgin land; wild land; habitat; native land
- —生態的ecological
- —生権力biopower
- —正規生regular student (undergraduate or graduate)
- —衛生士hygienist
- —内生的endogenous; autogenous