生

Life

N5 · 5 stroke · 28 kanji

A plant sprouting upward from the ground — the moment life breaks through and grows.

Memory hint

Watch a seedling push through dark earth: first a single shoot, then leaves spreading upward, reaching for the sun. That upward burst from the ground line is 生. Life. Birth. Growth. Being alive. Everything that lives and grows carries 生.

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Kanji using this radical
3 kanji
生
Life / Birth / Raw
い・きる · せい
先
Previous / Ahead / First
さき · せん
星
Star
ほし · せい

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