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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
- —着生epiphytic; designating a non-parasitic plant that grows on other plants
- —互生alternation (in phyllotaxis); alternate arrangement
- —生食eating (something) raw
- —生擒capturing something alive
- —産生production
- —迂生I; me; my humble self
- —生痕trace fossil
- —蔓生creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)
- —所生birth parents; birthplace; child; creation
- —底生benthic; sea-bottom
- —医生bio-medical; biomedical; medical student
- —腐生saprophagy
- —腋生axillary growth
- —副生byproduct; secondary product
- —生口prisoner of war (Yayoi period); slaves
- —現生living in the present
- —生殺sparing life and taking life; letting live and killing
- —生日birthday
- —生歯teething; cutting teeth; dentition
- —門生pupil; student; follower