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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
- —摂生法hygiene; (rules of) health
- —派生音sharp or flat note; non-natural note
- —生損保life and non-life insurance; life insurance and non-life insurance companies
- —生食用for raw consumption (of meat, shellfish, etc.)
- —水再生water reclamation; water recycling
- —副生物secondary product; by-product
- —学生歌student song; academic song
- —生活給living wage; subsistence pay
- —糖新生gluconeogenesis
- —生物岩biolith
- —野生型wild type
- —内部生student enrolled from an affiliated lower-level school
- —外部生student enrolled from an unaffiliated lower-level school
- —編入生transfer student; enrollee
- —生物的biological
- —初等生elementary school student; primary school student
- —資生堂Shiseido (Japanese cosmetics firm)
- —厚生連(provincial branch of the) National Welfare Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives
- —寄生根haustorium; parasitic root
- —生誕祭birthday celebration (esp. for an idol or fictional character); birthday festival; birthday event; birth celebration (e.g. of a deity, religious figure, historical figure); nativity celebration