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生

JLPT N5 SL1 5 strokes Frequency: #21

Meanings

life, genuine, birth

Radicals

生

Decomposition

⿻一土

Etymology

Ideographic: A shoot 屮 growing in the soil 土

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 5

Stroke Order

1 diagonal right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

3 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

セイ sei

Used in compound words

ショウ shou

Used in compound words

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

い i

With okurigana

なま nama

Raw, living

な na

With okurigana

む mu

With okurigana

き ki

Pure

は ha

うま uma

うまれ umare

う u

お o

Words Using This Kanji

1741 words total

Other (20 words)

共同生活きょうどうせいかつ

living together

教習生きょうしゅうせい

trainee

愚生ぐせい

I

苦学生くがくせい

self-supporting student

群生ぐんせい

growing en masse in one location (of plants)

軍人生活ぐんじんせいかつ

military life

軍隊生活ぐんたいせいかつ

army life

研究生けんきゅうせい

research student

研修生けんしゅうせい

trainee

原生動物げんせいどうぶつ

protozoan

原生林げんせいりん

primeval forest

原生げんせい

primeval

古生物学こせいぶつがく

paleontology

古生物こせいぶつ

extinct plants and animals

古生物学者こせいぶつがくしゃ

paleontologist

後生こうせい

younger people

後半生こうはんせい

latter half of one's life

後生大事ごしょうだいじ

with religious zeal

交換学生こうかんがくせい

exchange student

下級生かきゅうせい

student in a lower grade

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