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Kanji Detail for 乳 - "milk"

乳

  • Meaning

    乳 means "milk." Also associated with to nurture, young.

    1. Milk - Breast milk; mother milk.

    2. To nurture - To raise; care for children.

  • Words using 乳

    • 牛乳 ぎゅうにゅう Listen (cow's) milk
    • 乳児 にゅうじ Listen infant (below 1 year old); suckling baby
    • 乳幼児 にゅうようじ Listen babies and preschool children
    • 母乳 ぼにゅう Listen mother's milk
    • 乳製品 にゅうせいひん Listen dairy products
    • 乳房 ちぶさ Listen breast; udder
    • 乳首 ちくび Listen nipple; teat
    • 豆乳 とうにゅう Listen soy milk

  • Four-character idioms with 乳

    • 乳母日傘 おんばひがさ Listen (bringing up a child) with greatest care pampering (him, her) with material comforts of a rich family; (being brought up) in a hothouse atmosphere

  • Tattoo check: 乳

    • Verified meaning: milk
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ちち, みるく)
    • Also carries these associations: to nurture, young

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 乳

    Given names 乳(みるく)Listen

    Surnames 乳(ちち)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    milk; breasts

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    breast, nipples; milk, suckle

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (bound form) breast; (bound form) milk; (bound form) newborn; suckling

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    breast, nipples; milk; to suckle

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A part on the left and right of the chest and abdomen of animals. Where milk for nursing young is produced. Now generally the produced liquid is called 乳 (milk). Nursing with milk is also called 乳. | To give birth. Viviparous birth is called 乳. Hence things proliferating endlessly is also called 孳乳. | All newborn animals are called 乳. Such as 乳燕 (young swallow). | Colloquially, grinding finely is called 乳. The vessel for grinding is called 乳鉢 (mortar).

  • Onyomi

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    nyuu(ニュウ) ニュウ

  • Kunyomi

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    chi(ち) ち

    chichi(ちち) ちち

  • Strokes

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    8 strokes

  • Radical

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    乙 乚 (otsu・otsunyo・tsuribari)

  • Related Keywords

    milk nurture young newly born breast udder care dairy infant lactation mother nourishment nursing raise

Sentences including 乳

  • There isn't any milk in the glass.

  • Milk makes us strong.

  • The baby is crying for milk.

  • A baby craves its mother's milk.

  • The milk has gone bad.

  • Children should drink milk every day.

  • Do you have some milk?

  • Milk goes bad quickly in hot weather.

  • The milk has gone bad.

  • She can't do without milk.

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