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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
- —無中生有creation out of nothing; making something out of thin air; pure fabrication; "Creating Something from Nothing" (7th of the Thirty-Six Stratagems); making a non-existent thing appear to exist to deceive an enemy
- —生死不明not knowing whether someone is dead or alive; of unknown fate; missing
- —自生植物wild plant; native plant
- —生物時計biological clock; body clock
- —生物防除biological control; biocontrol
- —住友生命Sumitomo Life
- —女神転生Megami Tensei (video game series and media franchise)
- —新生銀行Shinsei Bank
- —日本生命Nippon Life
- —生活彩家Seikatsu Saika (convenience store belonging to Poplar Co. Ltd.)
- —生命活動vital functions; life processes; biological activity
- —処女生殖parthenogenesis
- —医学生物学medical biology
- —古生物学者paleontologist
- —国内総生産gross domestic product; GDP
- —最低生活費minimum cost of living
- —私生児出産illegitimate birth
- —社会生物学sociobiology
- —人生案内欄personal-question column
- —多年生植物perennial plant; perennial