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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

姿

9 strokes
Radical:
woman, female 女
Parts:
冫 女 欠
figure, form, shape
Kun:
すがた
On:
シ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
441 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 姿勢 【シセイ】 posture, pose, position, stance, carriage (of the body), attitude, approach, stance
  • 姿勢制御 【シセイセイギョ】 attitude control, postural control
  • 雄姿 【ユウシ】 majestic figure, imposing figure, impressive appearance, magnificent appearance
  • 英姿 【エイシ】 gallant figure, impressive figure, noble appearance

Kun reading compounds

  • 姿 【すがた】 figure, form, shape, appearance, dress, guise, state, condition, picture, image, form (of a waka), dressed in ..., wearing ...
  • 姿絵 【すがたえ】 portrait
  • 晴れ姿 【はれすがた】 appearing in one's finest clothes, appearing in one's hour of triumph
  • 舞姿 【まいすがた】 dancing figure, one's appearance when dancing, dancing posture

Readings

Japanese names:
しな
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi1
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • figura
  • forma
  • apariencia

Portuguese

  • figura
  • formulário
  • forma

French

  • silhouette
  • forme
  • aspect
888 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
877 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
592 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1215 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1133 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1193 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1217 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
929 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
953 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
661 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
429 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3264 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1684 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2291 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
485 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6257X Morohashi
2636 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1216 New Nelson (John Haig)
474 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
513 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
883 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
369 2001 Kanji
3e6.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-3 SKIP code
3740.4 Four corner code
1-27-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
59ff Unicode hex code