Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

29 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: life, genuine, birth

Kunyomi: 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

Onyomi: セイ ショウ

Radical

Radical:

Reading: うまれる

Meaning: life

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

(がくせい)   student

(せんせい)   teacher, master, doctor

(いっしょう)   one's whole life

日(たんじょうび)   birthday

きる(いきる)   live

まれる(うまれる)   be born

い立ち(おいたち)   upbringing, background

える(はえる)   grow [v.i.]

やす(はやす)   grow [v.t.]

卵(なまたまご)   raw egg

地(きじ)   cloth

Onyomi Examples

セイ life, living, I, me, myself, student

セイイク birth and growth, giving birth and raising, development, breeding

カイセイ resurrection, resuscitation, coming back to life, regeneration, nth-year university student

公衆衛 コウシュウエイセイ public health, public hygiene, sanitation

セイ life, living, I, me, myself, student

セイカ house where one was born, one's parents' house

セッショウ killing, destruction of life, cruel, heartless, callous, brutal

シセイ life and death

Kunyomi Examples

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.)

きる力 いきるちから zest for living, energy to live

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)

ける いける to arrange (flowers), to plant, living, live

ける屍 いけるしかばね living corpse

まれる うまれる to be born

まれる うまれる to be born

まれ うまれ birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)

まれつき うまれつき by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate

まれ うまれ birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)

まれつき うまれつき by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate

うむ to give birth, to bear (child), to lay (eggs), to produce, to yield, to give rise to, to deliver

おう to grow, to spring up, to cut (teeth)

える はえる to grow, to spring up, to sprout, to cut (teeth)

やす はやす to grow, to cultivate, to wear a beard

pure, undiluted, raw, crude

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 しにいき death and life, death or life, death

なま raw, uncooked, fresh, natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed, unprotected (sex), 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

なまり boiled and half-dried bonito

おなま impudence, sauciness

現ナマ げんナマ cold cash, hard cash

なる to bear fruit

なす to have a child

むす to grow (of moss, etc.)