Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
woman, female
Parts:
Variants:
pregnancy
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1413 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 妊婦 【ニンプ】 pregnant woman
  • 妊娠 【ニンシン】 pregnancy, conception, gestation
  • 不妊 【フニン】 infertility, sterility, barrenness
  • 懐妊 【カイニン】 pregnancy, conception

Kun reading compounds

  • 孕む 【はらむ】 to conceive, to become pregnant, to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind), to be swollen with, to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.), to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.), to involve (e.g. risk), to be swollen and ripe (of a plant ear, head, sprout, etc.)
  • 身ごもる 【みごもる】 to become pregnant

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ren4
Korean:
im

Spanish

  • concepción
  • embarazo

Portuguese

  • gravidez

French

  • grossesse
  • enceinte (femme)
1676 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1673 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1197 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1314 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1187 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
955 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
985 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1330 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
435 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
281 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
177 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
211 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
519 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6072 Morohashi
240 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1189 New Nelson (John Haig)
507 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
546 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1112 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1772 2001 Kanji
3e4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
4241.4 Four corner code
1-39-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
598a Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 孕婦 【ヨウフ】 pregnant woman
  • 懐孕 【カイヨウ】 pregnancy, conception
  • 妊孕 【ニンヨウ】 pregnancy, conception, fecundation

Kun reading compounds

  • 孕む 【はらむ】 to conceive, to become pregnant, to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind), to be swollen with, to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.), to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.), to involve (e.g. risk), to be swollen and ripe (of a plant ear, head, sprout, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
はらみ、 もと
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yun4
Korean:
ing

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1266 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
274 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
6938 Morohashi
1283 New Nelson (John Haig)
2208 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2320 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2c2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-3 SKIP code
1740.7 Four corner code
1-53-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b55 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
sex, gender, nature
Kun:
さが
On:
セイショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
104 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 性 【セイ】 nature (of a person), sex, gender, sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.), gender, -ty, -ity, -ness, -cy
  • 性格 【セイカク】 character (of a person), personality, disposition, nature, characteristics, nature (of a thing, event, etc.)
  • 耐性 【タイセイ】 resistance (e.g. to antibiotics), tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
  • 社会性 【シャカイセイ】 sociality
  • 性 【ショウ】 nature, disposition, temperament, character, quality, that which does not change according to external influences
  • 性根 【ショウネ】 nature, character, disposition
  • 冷え性 【ヒエショウ】 sensitivity to cold
  • 凝り性 【コリショウ】 tendency to become totally absorbed in something, monomania, perfectionism, fastidiousness, meticulousness, susceptibility for a stiffening of the shoulders

Kun reading compounds

  • 性 【さが】 one's nature, one's destiny, custom, tradition, habit, convention

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xing4
Korean:
seong

Spanish

  • sexo
  • género
  • naturaleza
  • temperamento

Portuguese

  • sexo
  • gênero
  • natureza

French

  • sexe
  • genre
  • nature
  • propriétés
645 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
745 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
723 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
199 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1666 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
280 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
535 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
564 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.13 Japanese for Busy People
98 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
98 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
421 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
811 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
357 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
222 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
266 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1572 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10478 Morohashi
299 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1822 New Nelson (John Haig)
1558 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1679 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
119 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
690 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1172 2001 Kanji
4k5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
1-1-7 SKIP code
9501.0 Four corner code
1-32-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6027 Unicode hex code