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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)
On readings
セイショウ
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
- —書生student; student who performs housework in exchange for meals and lodging; houseboy (attending school or university)
- —女生schoolgirl
- —小生I; me; my humble self
- —水生aquatic (life); living in the water
- —生検biopsy
- —生残survival
- —生地birthplace
- —生得one's nature or personality; inherent; innate
- —生年year of a person's birth; age
- —生別lifelong separation
- —生母one's birth mother; one's biological mother
- —摂生taking care of one's health
- —双生bearing twins; twins
- —叢生dense growth; thick growth; gregarious growth; growing in clusters
- —胎生viviparity; viviparous; zoogonous; live-bearing
- —天生naturally occurring; nature; disposition; vocation; calling
- —転生transmigration; reincarnation; metempsychosis
- —平生usual; ordinary
- —優生eugenics
- —幼生larva; larvae