Noun
teacher; instructor; master
われわれの先生は真の意味で紳士です。Our teacher is a gentleman in the true sense of the word. Noun, Noun, used as a suffix
sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.
Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language
Noun
intimate or teasing form of address
Familiar languageJocular, humorous term
one's elder
Archaicorig. meaning
Characters in this word
2先
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
Dictionary and index codes (34)
| Code | Reference |
|---|---|
| 2-4-2 | SKIP code |
| 3b3.7 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2421.1 | Four corner code |
| 2457 | deroo |
| 5148 | Unicode hex code |
| 1-32-72 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 571 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 350 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2394 | New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3046 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1552 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2123 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 248 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 263 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 201 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 280 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 65 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1349 | Morohashi |
| 49 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 50 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 50 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 33 | sakade |
| 16 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 43 | henshall3 |
| 54 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 115 | crowley |
| 48 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 2.18 | busy_people |
| 145 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 254 | Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette) |
| xian1 | Pinyin reading |
| seon | Korean reading |
| n5 | JLPT level (KANJIDIC2) |
| 4 | WaniKani level |
生
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
life, genuine, birth
- Kun
- 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
- On
- セイ、ショウ
- Strokes
- 5
- Taught
- Grade 1
- JLPT
- N5
- Frequency
- 29 of 2500
- Radical
- 生 life
- WaniKani
- Level 3
Built from
Used in names as
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
Dictionary and index codes (34)
| Code | Reference |
|---|---|
| 4-5-2 | SKIP code |
| 0a5.29 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2510.0 | Four corner code |
| 2472 | deroo |
| 751f | Unicode hex code |
| 1-32-24 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 2991 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 3715 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 3497 | New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4309 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2179 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2933 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1555 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1675 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 29 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 214 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 67 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 21670 | Morohashi |
| 42 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 44 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 44 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 34 | sakade |
| 71 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 44 | henshall3 |
| 43 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 9 | crowley |
| 49 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 2.4 | busy_people |
| 1327 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1569 | Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette) |
| sheng1 | Pinyin reading |
| saeng | Korean reading |
| n5 | JLPT level (KANJIDIC2) |
| 3 | WaniKani level |