KANJI: SEI SHOU i (life, birth, grow)

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Character Etymology:

From a pictograph of a growing plant, symbolizing vitality.

A Listing of All On-Yomi and Kun-Yomi Readings:

on-yomi: SEI SHOU
kun-yomi: i(kiru) i(kasu) i(keru) u(mareru) u(mare) umare u(mu) o(u) ha(eru) ha(yasu) ki nama nama- na(ru) na(su) mu(su) -u

Nanori Readings:

Nanori: asa iki iku ike ubu umai e oi gyuu kurumi gose sa jou sugi so sou chiru naba niu nyuu fu mi mou yoi ryuu

English Definitions:

1. SHOU, SEI: birth, life, existance, living; subsistence; student.
2. ha(eru): grow; spring up; cut (teeth).
3. ha(yasu): grow, cultivate, wear (a beard).
4. i(kasu): revive, resuscitate; restore to life; let live; spare a life; make the most of; give life to.
5. i(keru): keep alive; arrange flowers (in a vase); living.
6. i(kiru): live, subsist, exist; be safe (on first, as in baseball).
7. na(rasu): cause to bear (fruit).
8. na(ru): grow (on a plant), bear (fruit).
9. na(su): bear (a child).
10. o(u): grow.
11. shou(jiru), shou(zuru): produce, yield, create, give rise to, bear, breed; happen, result from.
12. u(mareru): be born.
13. u(mu): bear, give birth to, spawn, breed; produce, yield.
14. nama: raw, uncooked, fresh; unripe; rare; hard cash; conceited; inexperienced; (beer) on tap; crude (rubber), unprocessed.
15. i(ki): living; freshness; setting.
16. u(mare): birth, origin, lineage; birthplace.
17. u(mi): childbirth.
18. -fu: grassy place; woods.
19. ki-: pure, undiluted, genuine; raw, crude.

Character Index Numbers:

New Nelson: 3715
Henshall: 42

Unicode Encoded Version:

生

Unicode Encoded Compound Examples:

先生 (sensei): teacher, doctor; master; elder; honorific suffix.
学生 (gakusei): student.
生き方 (i(ki)kata): way of life, how to live.
生生 (seisei): lively, vivdly.
生化学 (seikagaku): biochemistry.

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