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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
- —生理不順menstrual irregularity; irregular periods
- —最上級生senior (e.g. at school)
- —副生殖器accessory sex organs; accessory genitalia
- —学生横綱university amateur champion
- —土俵人生wrestler's active career
- —自力更生working out one's salvation by own efforts; rehabilitating oneself by one's own efforts; rectifying one's ways of life without relying on others' help
- —人生行路journey of life
- —生々流転all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration
- —生気溌剌being full of vitality; being vivacious
- —外国生活life in a foreign country; living abroad
- —居候生活living in another person's house without paying for food and lodging; sponging on other people for accommodation
- —逸楽生活a life given up to pleasure; pleasure-seeking lifestyle
- —隠遁生活a reclusive life; living secluded from the world; leading a sequestered life
- —学生気質student temperament; students' way of thinking
- —気韻生動being animated (vivid) with grace (elegance, refinement)
- —禁欲生活an ascetic existence; (leading) a continent life; abstinence
- —後生可畏the young should be regarded with respect
- —人生朝露man's life vanishes like a dew; a person's life is as fleeting as a morning dew
- —人生模様facets (aspects) of (human) life; the pattern of (one's) life
- —生活残業(working) overtime to make ends meet (to support one's lifestyle)