生

life; born; raw

Builds 149 distinct compound words — ranked #7 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: セイ・ショウ
訓 kun: い.きる・う.まれる・なま・は.える

Living, being born, and being uncooked. As a suffix it marks a student — 学生, 先生. なま means raw or unprocessed — 生ビール.

The ten most common compounds built on 生. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

149compounds built

5,328times those words occur

#7by productivity alone

#16by how often it turns up

Where 生 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 生. Each one opens its own map.

人person人生#1 一one一生懸命、一生#2 日sun; day誕生日#5 学study; learning学生#15 先ahead; previous; tip先生#71

Words built on 生

先生せんせい945 uses

学生がくせい511 uses

生活せいかつ426 uses

生徒せいと412 uses

一生懸命いっしょうけんめい376 uses

生きるいきる358 uses

人生じんせい309 uses

生まれるうまれる248 uses

誕生日144 uses

生むうむ77 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.