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germ
Stroke count: 11

Readings

On readingキン

Meanings

  1. germRtK
    私の知る限り、この化学薬品は細菌の繁殖を防ぐだろう。To my knowledge, this chemical will prevent germs from breeding.tatoeba
    細菌は小さすぎて我々の眼には見えない。Germs are too tiny for our eyes to see.tatoeba
  2. fungus
  3. bacteria
  1. bacterium
  2. bacillus

Synonyms

細菌菌類

Homonyms

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Same reading (きん)
金 · gold (metal)

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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flowers (艹) · pent in (囗) · wheat (禾) · cereal (禾)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 985

Compound words

細菌は顕微鏡の力を借りて初めて見られる。
Germs can only be seen with the aid of a microscope.tatoeba
細菌が病気を引き起こすことがある。
Germs can cause sickness.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

細菌はとても汚い
さいきんはとてもきたないBacteria are very dirty.
除菌スプレーを使用してください
じょきんすぷれーをしようしてくださいUse disinfectant spray.
この菌による病気は灰色かび病と名づけられているものが多い
このきんによるびょうきははいいろかびびょうとなづけられているものがおおいMany diseases caused by this fungus are named gray mold disease.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

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