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Kanji Detail for 輩 - "comrade, fellow, people, companions"

輩

  • Meaning

    輩 means "comrade, fellow, people, companions."

    1. Peers - Companions; fellows; group.

    2. Order - Sequence; rank.

    3. To line up - To arrange; to continue in line.

  • Words using 輩

    • 先輩 せんぱい Listen senior (at school, work, etc.); superior; elder
    • 後輩 こうはい Listen junior (at work, school, etc.); younger people; younger student
    • 輩出 はいしゅつ Listen producing (people) in great numbers; appearing one after the other

  • Tattoo check: 輩

    • Verified meaning: comrade, fellow, people, companions
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    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.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    comrade; fellow; people; companions

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    generation, lifetime; class

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    generation, lifetime; contemporary

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

    Rank and order. Such as 前輩 (predecessors), 後輩 (juniors). When there is more than one person, it is called 輩. Such as "we" is 我輩. "You all" is 若輩.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hai(ハイ) ハイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    bara(ばら) ばら

    tomogara(ともがら) ともがら

    yakai(やかい) やかい

    yakara(やから) やから

  • Strokes

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    15 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    車 (kuruma・kurumahen)

  • Related Keywords

    order to line up peers follow link fellow colleague companion group rank comrades gang crew associates cohort generation

Sentences including 輩

  • He has more experience on the job than i.

  • He is my junior by three years.

  • We look up to him as a good senior.

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