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life
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Readings

On readingセイショウ
Kun reading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.やすなまなま-な.るな.すむ.す-う

Meanings

  1. lifeRtK
    忙しい家族会うことないHe doesn't see his family in his busy life.tatoeba
    因果必然道理信じ自他いのちかすべしMake the most of your life and others' by believing in the order of retribution.wiki
  2. birth
  3. genuine
  1. uncooked
  2. fresh
  3. natural
  4. as it is

Synonyms

生ビール生意気

Popular Usage

学生生徒先生誕生日留学生生まれる生活生産生きる高校生大学生一生懸命

Radicals and components

Radicallife

Mnemonic (RtK)

This is Your Life · cell · drop () · grow up

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1675

Compound words

学生がくせい
student (esp. a university student)
生徒せいと
pupil; student; schoolchild
先生せんせい
teacher; instructor; master; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.
誕生日たんじょうび
birthday
留学生りゅうがくせい
overseas student; exchange student
生まれるうまれる
to be born
生活せいかつ
life; living; livelihood; (one's) living
生産せいさん
production; manufacture
高校生こうこうせい
senior high school student
生きるいきる
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect
大学生だいがくせい
university student; college student
一生懸命いっしょうけんめい
very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life
芝生しばふ
lawn; grass
人生じんせい
(one's) life
生地きじ
cloth; fabric; material; texture; dough
生物せいぶつ
living thing; organism; creature; life; biology
生命せいめい
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force
一生いっしょう
whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
生き物いきもの
living thing; living creature; animal; life
生じるしょうじる
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise
生まれうまれ
birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
写生しゃせい
sketching; drawing from nature; portrayal; description
生存せいぞん
existence; being; life; survival
生長せいちょう
growth (of a plant)
彼は法科の学だ。がくせい
He is an undergraduate in the law department.tatoeba
彼は並みの大学より一段上だ。だいがくせい
He is a cut above the average college student.tatoeba
彼は並みの学ではない。がくせい
He is above the ordinary type of student.tatoeba
彼は物理の先ですが数学も教えられます。せんせい
He's a teacher of physics, but can also teach math.tatoeba
彼はの魚を食べない。なま
He doesn't eat raw fish.tatoeba
日本ではしばしば魚をで食べる。なま
We often eat fish raw in Japan.tatoeba
地を預ければドレスを仕立ててくれますか。きじ
Will you make me up a dress if I give you the material?tatoeba
彼は法律を涯の仕事に選んだ。
He made law his life career.tatoeba
彼は法律を一の職業にしたいと思っていた。
He wanted to follow law as a career.tatoeba
彼は法科の学だ。
He is an undergraduate in the law department.tatoeba
越後にまれる。
He was born in Echigo Province.wiki
東京にまれる。
He was born in Tokyo.wiki
教員2人、徒8人。
Two teachers and eight students.wiki
昭和期には児童・徒に暗唱を強いた。
Children and students were forced to recite the Imperial Rescript on Education during the Showa period.wiki
今やきる望みもない。
I have no hope to live.wiki
まごころにきる(南こうせつ作詞・作曲)
Magokoro-ni-Ikiru (lyrics and music by Kosetsu MINAMI)wiki
日本人の活時間
Time for Living of Japanese Peoplewiki
活デザイン専攻
Lifestyle Design Studieswiki
本庄漁業産組合
Honjo Fishery Productive Associationwiki
-産、業関係
Production and regular vocationwiki
伝承される神霊・精霊や架空の不気味なき物
The handed down divine spirit, souls of dead people, and fictional spooky creatureswiki
または、本来は存在するはずのない怪異なき物。
Or, a grotesque creature which shouldn't exist.wiki
地を作る基礎。
The base for the dough.wiki
地は備前国。
He was born in Bizen Province.wiki
一家創立は次の場合にじる
Creation of a family occurs in following cases.wiki
また、それに伴う乾燥化等もじる。
At the same time, aridification also often occurs.wiki
物 オニヤンマ
Creature: Oni-yanma (largest kind of dragonfly in Japan)wiki
応用物科学専攻
Division of Applied Bioscienceswiki
朝日命奈良支社
Asahi Life Insurance Nara Branchwiki
大同命奈良支社
Daido Life Insurance Nara Branchwiki
以後、多くの作品で庶民活をきと活写し評判になる。
He went on to become popular for his many works vividly portraying the lives of common people.wiki
江戸庶民の暮らしをきと描写した川柳にも褌はよく登場する。
Fundoshi loincloths often appear also in senryu poems depicting the vivid lives of common people in the Edo period.wiki
け花や、花業者等が切花などが、長持ちするように施す処理のこと。
This is a treatment for prolonging lives of flowers arranged or cut flowers by florists.wiki
諸法のずる時は、体及び余の法は凡て九事有り。
All the universe is substantial and has all the nine factors at its onset.wiki
存圏診断統御研究系
Research Division of Diagnostics and Control of Humanospherewiki
存圏開発創成研究系
Research Division of Creative Research and Development of Humanospherewiki
この卵と精子が受精し、長する。
When the ovum is fertilized by the spermatozoon, a fertilized egg is produced and grows up.wiki
年月日は2月20日 (旧暦)とも。
It is said that his birthday was on the 20th of February according to the lunar calendar.wiki
産地の特長をかすよう原料や製法等が制限される。
Raw materials, manufacturing method, etc. are restricted so that features of the area are fully used.wiki
まれつきの短気で、意見されても直らないという。
He said that he was short-tempered by nature and could not control it even if he was advised.wiki
禅師いわく、然らば短気はまれつきではござらぬ。
Bankei said, "Then you are not short-tempered by nature."wiki
性格は真面目で我慢強い。
Lady Akashi has a very serious and patient character.wiki
真面目で誠実な人物だと伝わっている。
He was said to have been very serious and sincere.wiki

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