Meanings
- life
- genuine
- birth
Strokes5
JLPT levelN5
School gradeGrade 1
Frequency#29 of 2,500
Kanji N5
生: life, genuine, birth
生
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- セイ
- ショウ
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
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
- き
- なま
- なま-
- なる
- なす
- むす
- -う
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
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Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.
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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings and meanings from KANJIDIC2 © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.