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Kanji Detail for 乳 - "milk, nurture, infant"

乳

  • Meaning

    乳 means "milk, nurture, infant."

    1. Milk - Breast milk; mother milk.

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

  • 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).
  • Onyomitip

    ju(じゅ) じゅ

    nyu(にゅ) にゅ

  • Kunyomitip

    chi(ち) ち

    chichi(ちち) ちち

  • Strokestip

    8 strokes

  • Radicaltip

    乙 乚 (otsu・otsunyo・tsuribari)

  • Related Keywords
    milk breast nursing nurture nourish feed mother maternal infant baby newborn young care raise sustain lactation dairy creamy white tender

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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