生
生 — saeng
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 날 생
- Romanization
- saeng
- English
- life, living, lifetime; birth
- Mandarin
- shēng
- Japanese on'yomi
- セイ, ショウ, ソウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- 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
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #29 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 生 (100, 0 residual)
- Unicode
- U+751F
Korean example words with 生
- 전생全生 Korean gloss: 온 생애
- 사생死生 Korean gloss: 죽음과 삶
- 생년生年 Korean gloss: 태어난 해
- 생화生貨 Korean gloss: 장사를 함
- 생후生後 Korean gloss: 태어난 후
- 반생半生 Korean gloss: 한평생의 반
- 범생凡生 Korean gloss: 평범한 사람
- 부생浮生 Korean gloss: 덧없는 인생
- 생남生男 Korean gloss: 아들을 낳음
- 생살生殺 Korean gloss: 살리고 죽임
- 생시生時 Korean gloss: 태어난 시간
- 생욕生慾 Korean gloss: 살려는 의욕
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 生
- 学生がくせい student (esp. a university student)
- 生活せいかつ life; living; livelihood
- 生産せいさん production; manufacture
- 人生じんせい (one's) life
- 生徒せいと pupil; student; schoolchild
- 先生せんせい teacher; instructor; master
- 新生しんせい rebirth; new birth; nascent
- 年生ねんせい nth-year student; nth-year pupil
- 厚生省こうせいしょう (former) Ministry of Health and Welfare
- 生命せいめい life; existence; (one's) working life
- 誕生たんじょう birth (of a person); nativity; creation
- 発生はっせい occurrence; incidence; outbreak
Other hanja read “생”
Other hanja with radical 生
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