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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
- —寄生バチparasitoid wasp; parasitic wasp; parasitic bee
- —野生ブタferal pig
- —学生割引きstudent discount
- —生を享けるto be born; to come into this world
- —生活のかてsource of one's livelihood; one's bread and butter
- —第２の人生new life (esp. after retirement); postretirement life
- —人生二周目second time at life (oft. jokingly of precocious children); reincarnation
- —生彩を欠くto lack luster; to be dull; to be unimpressive; to be off form; to be sluggish; to be lethargic
- —タケノコ生活selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)
- —たけのこ生活selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)
- —２卵性双生児fraternal twins
- —学生割り引きstudent discount
- —生計をたてるto make a living
- —生長ホルモンgrowth hormone
- —爬虫両生類学herpetology
- —初生雛鑑別師chicken sexer
- —人生一度切りyou only live once; you only have one life
- —オゾン発生機ozonizer; ozonator
- —悠悠自適の生活life free from worldly cares
- —生死にかかわる問題matter of life and death