生: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- life, genuine, birth
- On readings (katakana)
- セイ、ショウ
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- 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
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- あさ、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
- Strokes
- 5
- Grade
- 1: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 1
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 29 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 생
In kun readings a dot separates the stem from the ending that is written in hiragana after the kanji (ひと.つ), and a hyphen marks a prefix or a suffix (ひと-).
Names that use 生
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.