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生
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
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