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Kanji Detail for 妊 - "pregnant, conceive"

  • Meaning

    妊 means "pregnant, conceive."

    1. Pregnant - Carrying a child; expecting.

    2. Conceive - To become pregnant; to bear a child.

  • Words using

    • 妊娠 にんしん Listen pregnancy; conception; gestation
    • 避妊 ひにん Listen contraception; birth control
    • 不妊 ふにん Listen infertility; sterility; barrenness
    • 妊婦 にんぷ Listen pregnant woman
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    • Verified meaning: pregnant, conceive
    • 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

    pregnancy

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    conceive, be pregnant

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    pregnant; pregnancy

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to conceive; to be pregnant

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

    A woman being pregnant.
  • Onyomi

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  • Kunyomi

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Sentences including

  • She is great with child.

  • I'm expecting.

  • She is expecting a child.

  • She is happy to have conceived a baby by him.

  • Are you pregnant?

  • I am pregnant.

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