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生

5 strokes
Radical:
life 生
Parts:
生
life, genuine, birth
Kun:
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、 き、 なま、 なま-、 な.る、 な.す、 む.す、 -う
On:
セイ、 ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
29 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
  • 生育 【セイイク】 birth and growth, giving birth and raising, development, breeding
  • 回生 【カイセイ】 resurrection, resuscitation, coming back to life, regeneration, nth-year university student
  • 公衆衛生 【コウシュウエイセイ】 public health, public hygiene, sanitation
  • 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
  • 生家 【セイカ】 house where one was born, one's parents' house
  • 殺生 【セッショウ】 killing, destruction of life, cruel, heartless, callous, brutal
  • 死生 【シセイ】 life and death

Kun reading compounds

  • 生きる 【いきる】 to live, to exist, to make a living, to subsist, to be in effect, to be in use, to function, to come to life, to be enlivened, to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)
  • 生きる糧 【いきるかて】 source of vitality, life sustenance
  • 生かす 【いかす】 to make (the best) use of, to put to good use, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc.), to let live, to keep alive, to revive, to resuscitate, to bring back to life, to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
  • 生ける 【いける】 to arrange (flowers), to plant, living, live
  • 生ける屍 【いけるしかばね】 living corpse
  • 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
  • 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
  • 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
  • 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
  • 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
  • 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
  • 生む 【うむ】 to give birth, to bear (child), to lay (eggs), to produce, to yield, to give rise to, to deliver
  • 生う 【おう】 to grow (of plants), to spring up
  • 生える 【はえる】 to grow, to spring up, to sprout, to cut (teeth)
  • 生やす 【はやす】 to grow, to cultivate, to let grow (e.g. weeds)
  • 生 【き】 pure, undiluted, raw, crude
  • 生地 【きじ】 cloth, fabric, material, texture, dough, batter, inherent quality, one's true character, one's true colours, unglazed pottery, skin with no make-up, uncoated metal
  • 死に生き 【しにいき】 death and life, death or life, death
  • 生 【なま】 raw, uncooked, fresh, natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed, unprotected (sex), raw, bareback, live (i.e. not recorded), inexperienced, unpolished, green, crude, impudence, sauciness, unpasteurized beer, draft beer, draught beer, blank (e.g. disk), unused, just a little, somehow, vaguely, partially, somewhat, half-, semi-, insufficient, incomplete, half-baked, half-hearted, perfunctory, cash, tipsiness
  • 生り 【なまり】 boiled and half-dried bonito
  • お生 【おなま】 impudence, sauciness
  • 現ナマ 【げんナマ】 cold cash, hard cash
  • 生る 【なる】 to bear fruit
  • 生す 【なす】 to have a child
  • 生す 【むす】 to grow (of moss, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
あさ、 いき、 いく、 いけ、 うぶ、 うまい、 え、 おい、 ぎゅう、 くるみ、 ごせ、 さ、 じょう、 すぎ、 そ、 そう、 ちる、 なば、 にう、 にゅう、 ふ、 み、 もう、 よい、 りゅう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sheng1
Korean:
saeng

Spanish

  • vida
  • nacimiento
  • vivir
  • existir
  • nacer
  • dar a luz
  • puro
  • crudo

Portuguese

  • vida
  • genuína
  • nascimento

French

  • vie
  • naissance
  • authentique
  • cru
34 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
44 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
42 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
29 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2991 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
67 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
71 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
214 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.4 Japanese for Busy People
44 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
44 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
49 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1327 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4309 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2179 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2933 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1569 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21670 Morohashi
3497 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3715 New Nelson (John Haig)
1555 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1675 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
9 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
43 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2472 2001 Kanji
0a5.29 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-2 SKIP code
2510.0 Four corner code
1-32-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
751f Unicode hex code

姜

9 strokes
Radical:
woman, female 女
Parts:
并 女 王 羊
Chinese surname, ginger
Kun:
こう
On:
キョウ、 ガ
1915 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 生姜 【ショウキョウ】 dried ginger root (trad. medicine)
  • 乾薑 【カンキョウ】 dried ginger
  • 生姜 【ショウガ】 ginger (Zingiber officinale)
  • 紅しょうが 【ベニショウガ】 red pickled ginger

Readings

Japanese names:
かん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiang1
Korean:
gang

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3657 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6205 Morohashi
1210 New Nelson (John Haig)
2o7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
8040.4 Four corner code
1-53-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
59dc Unicode hex code

湯

12 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
一 ｜ 汁 日 勿
hot water, bath, hot spring
Kun:
ゆ
On:
トウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1356 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 湯治 【トウジ】 hot-spring cure, taking the baths
  • 湯液 【トウエキ】 decoction (in Chinese medicine)
  • 銭湯 【セントウ】 public bath, bathhouse
  • 給湯 【キュウトウ】 hot-water supply

Kun reading compounds

  • 湯 【ゆ】 hot water, hot bath, hot spring, molten iron
  • 湯気 【ゆげ】 steam, vapour, vapor
  • 茶の湯 【ちゃのゆ】 tea ceremony, chanoyu
  • もらい湯 【もらいゆ】 taking a bath in another's home

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tang1, shang1
Korean:
tang, sang

Spanish

  • agua caliente
  • fuente termal

Portuguese

  • água quente
  • banho
  • fonte quente

French

  • eau chaude
  • bain
  • source chaude
482 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
381 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
359 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1022 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2633 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
844 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
700 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1587 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
632 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
642 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
836 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1226 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
747 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
446 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
561 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
552 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17874 Morohashi
612 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3245 New Nelson (John Haig)
546 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
585 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
406 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
351 2001 Kanji
3a9.23 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
3612.7 Four corner code
1-37-82 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e6f Unicode hex code