生 – vocab dash

生しょう

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Meanings

Noun

1. life; living

Other readings

Kanji used

Pitch accent

しょう

Used in vocabulary

Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)

Noun

unfailing devotion to one's country; serving one's country for seven lives

Noun

all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration

Noun

the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death)

Noun

neither arising nor ceasing

Noun

before one's birth; before one was born

No-adjective

four kinds of birth in the six destinies

Noun

Examples2

死しは生せいの正せい反はん対たいである。

Death is the antithesis of life.

生せいを感かんじる。

I feel alive.