Character · Qualities
生
いっしょう isshōうむ umuふようじょう fuyōjōはえぬ haenu
life, birth
Composition
Origin
Pictogram of a young shoot breaking out of the soil: to be born, to live.
In the thoughts
- 生むumugives birth to
- 不養生fuyōjōneglected health
- 生えぬhaenudoes not grow
- 一生isshōa lifetime
- 回生kaiseirevival
Proverbs carrying this character
- 042 鳶が鷹を生む A kite can give birth to a hawk.
- 044 医者の不養生 The doctor neglects his own health.
- 083 蒔かぬ種は生えぬ The unsown seed does not grow.
- 088 聞くは一時の恥、聞かぬは一生の恥 To ask is a moment's shame; not to ask is a lifetime's shame.
- 173 正直は一生の宝 Honesty is the treasure of a lifetime.
- 184 九死に一生を得る To gain one life out of nine deaths.
- 185 起死回生 Bringing back to life what seemed dead.
- 200 人の一生は重荷を負うて遠き道を行くが如し A man's life is a long road walked under a burden; there is no need to hurry.