あさ
セイ, ショウ, い.きる, い.かす, い.ける, 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, 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
life, genuine, birth

This kanji is also known as the "life" radical (うまれる), which has 5 strokes.

Sample compounds (99) :


  1. なま
    (a-no) raw, draft (beer), unprocessed

  2. なる
    to bear fruit

  3. おう
    to grow, to spring up, to cut (teeth)
  4. かす
    いかす
    to revive, to resuscitate, to make use of
  5. ける
    いける
    to arrange (flowers)
  6. ごみ
    なまごみ
    kitchen waste
  7. じる
    しょうじる
    to produce, to yield, to result from, to arise, to be generated
  8. もの
    なまもの
    perishables
  9. ぬるい
    なまぬるい
    lukewarm, halfhearted
  10. まれつく
    うまれつく
    to be born
  11. きのいい
    いきのいい
    very fresh (e.g. food)

  12. いっしょう
    whole life, a lifetime, all through life, one existence, a generation, an age, the whole world, the era

  13. したばえ
    underbrush, undergrowth

  14. てんせい
    naturally occurring, nature, disposition, vocation, calling

  15. へいぜい
    (a-no) usual, ordinary

  16. さいせい
    (vs) playback, regeneration, resuscitation, return to life, rebirth, reincarnation, narrow escape, reclamation, regrowth

  17. こうせい
    (vs) rehabilitation, regeneration, rebirth, resuscitation, reorganization

  18. なかて
    mid-season crops

  19. しゅっせい
    birth

  20. うみだす
    to bring forth, to bear, to invent

  21. はんせい
    half a lifetime

  22. せんなり
    great collection (of things)

  23. すえなり
    fruit near end of the vine, weak-looking fellow

  24. ねんせい
    pupil in .... year, student in .... year

  25. らんせい
    oviparity, produced from eggs
  26. しいまれ
    いやしいうまれ
    (a-no) lowborn

  27. しちしょう
    seven lives

  28. せいいく
    growth, development, breeding

  29. いくせい
    rearing, training, nurture, cultivation, promotion
  30. まれわり
    うまれかわり
    rebirth, reincarnation

  31. じんせい
    (human) life (i.e. conception to death)

  32. けしょう
    goblin

  33. せいたい
    organism, living body

  34. よせい
    one's remaining years

  35. せいほ
    (abbr) life insurance

  36. ゆうせい
    eugenic

  37. きょうせい
    symbiosis, paragenesis

  38. せいぜん
    while alive, during one's lifetime

  39. せいべつ
    (vs) lifelong separation

  40. かいせい
    resurrection, resuscitation

  41. きじ
    cloth, material, texture, ones true character, unglazed pottery

  42. いけがき
    hedge

  43. じゅくせい
    private-school student

  44. じょせい
    schoolgirl

  45. がくせい
    student

  46. せいか
    (parents') home

  47. しょうせい
    ego
  48. びる
    いきのびる
    to survive, to live long

  49. やよい
    third month of the lunar calendar, March, spring

  50. こうせい
    younger people, future generations

  51. しょうとく
    inherent

  52. ぐせい
    (hum) I
  53. さま
    おあいにくさま
    unfortunate person (often a gleeful "too bad for you!")

  54. せいせい
    create, generate, form

  55. いけどり
    capture (alive)

  56. せっせい
    hygiene, health maintenance

  57. いきかた
    way of life, how to live

  58. せいし
    life & death

  59. せいざん
    survival

  60. せいしょく
    reproduction

  61. なまごろし
    half-dead

  62. すいせい
    aquatic life

  63. しょうがい
    one's lifetime (i.e., one's existance until death)

  64. なまぬるい
    lukewarm, halfhearted

  65. なまにえ
    half-cooked, rare, vague

  66. せいぶつ
    living things, creature

  67. いきもの
    living thing, animal

  68. ちくしょうめ
    son-of-a-bitch

  69. せいり
    physiology, menses
  70. きと
    いきいきと
    vividly, lively
  71. きと
    いきいきと
    vividly, lively

  72. はっせい
    (vs) outbreak, spring forth, occurrence, incidence, origin

  73. せいこう
    (an) crude, immature, unpolished

  74. せいさん
    (vs) production, manufacture

  75. ぞくせい
    (vs) (of plants) growing in clusters, growing gregariously

  76. きいと
    raw silk thread

  77. すずし
    raw silk products

  78. しょうが
    ginger

  79. ぐんせい
    all animate creation, many people

  80. しょせい
    student, houseboy

  81. じせい
    (vs) growing wild (naturally), native

  82. なまぐさい
    smelling of fish or blood, fish or meat

  83. せいそく
    (vs) inhabiting, living

  84. しばふ
    lawn

  85. いけばな
    flower arrangement

  86. おいしげる
    to grow thickly, to be overgrown

  87. めばえ
    bud, sprout

  88. うみおとす
    to give birth to

  89. そせい
    (vs) rebirth, resuscitation, rehabilitation, reorganization, regeneration, resurrection, reviving

  90. しゅじょう
    living things, the people

  91. せいけい
    livelihood, living

  92. せいたん
    birth, nativity

  93. せいき
    (vs) take place, occurrence, happen

  94. なまみ
    living flesh, flesh and blood, the quick

  95. せいかん
    (vs) returning alive, (baseball) reaching the home plate

  96. せいちょう
    growth, increment

  97. ながいき
    longevity, long life

  98. いんせい
    (abbr) graduate student

  99. はえぎわ
    (receding) hairline, borders of the hair
Kanji Character : 生
Kuten Encoding : 3224
SJIS Encoding : 4038
Unicode Encoding : 751f
Old Nelson Index : 2991
Radical Number : 100
Frequency Ranking : 24
Gakken Index : 29
Grade Level : 1
Halpern Index : 3497
Heisig Index : 1555
Henshall Index : 42
New Nelson Index : 3715
O'Neil Index : 214
Stroke Count : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 0a5.29
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 0
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : a
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 29
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 44
SKIP Code : 4-5-2
De Roo Code : 2472
Four Corner Code : 2510.0
Korean reading : saeng
Pinyin reading : sheng1
Morohashi Index String : 21670
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 7.1027
Morohashi Index Number : 21670
Morohashi Page : 1027
Morohashi Volume : 7
Dictionary Codes
  1. R2472
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