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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
- —生活不安worry (uncertainty, uneasiness, insecurity) about one's life (future)
- —生死一如life and death are the two faces of the same coin
- —選手生命player's career; one's career in sport; one's career as an athlete
- —耽溺生活a fast (dissolute) life; a life of follies; a life given to dissolute pleasures
- —逃亡生活life on the run
- —遁世生活living in seclusion; retired from the world
- —放蕩生活fast living; dissipated life; riotous life
- —放浪生活(leading) a vagabond life; (leading) a wandering existence
- —瞑想生活life of meditation; contemplative life
- —役者生命acting career; career as an actress
- —路上生活living on the street; life on the streets; homelessness
- —生活信条one's philosophy of life
- —連続発生consecutive occurrences
- —生活振りway of life
- —校長先生school principal; school headmaster; school headmistress
- —生徒指導student guidance; student counseling
- —集団発生mass outbreak (of a disease)
- —野生生物wildlife
- —生体組織biological tissue
- —結婚生活wedded life; married life