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生まれる

うまれる

to be born

Mnemonic

The shoot pushing its way up, except that this time nobody is doing it to anybody. The phone goes at four in the morning: ooh う, ma ま, there is a new person in the world: うまれる.

Worth knowing

生む うむ is bearing the child; 生まれる is the child arriving. 生まれ うまれ on its own is where you are from.

Built from

life, raw
A pictograph, a shoot pushing up out of the ground.

Words sharing these kanji

teacher to live, to exist to have children life, lifestyle (human) life pupil, student occurrence, happening a lifetime living creature student

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