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人生

じんせい

(human) life

Mnemonic

A person and the shoot pushing up. Not being alive, which is 命, and not daily living, which is 生活. The same Jin じん, and say せい it from the far end: the whole span: じんせい.

Worth knowing

命 いのち is life itself, 生活 せいかつ is how it gets lived, 人生 is the course of one.

Built from

person
A pictograph, a figure walking, seen from the side.
life, raw
A pictograph, a shoot pushing up out of the ground.

Words sharing these kanji

person person from (nationality) human being, people the person in question character, person another person, stranger adult people friend criminal, culprit lover, sweetheart doll

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