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生活

せいかつ

life, lifestyle

Mnemonic

A shoot pushing up, and water with a tongue in it, both of them alive. Not being alive: how you go about it, day after day. Say せい it, with the same cats かつ doing theirs at three in the morning: せいかつ.

Worth knowing

命 いのち is life itself; 生活 is how it gets lived. 生活費 せいかつひ is living costs.

Built from

life, raw
A pictograph, a shoot pushing up out of the ground.
lively, active
氵 water + 舌 tongue

Words sharing these kanji

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

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