生きる

Meanings

1. to live; to exist
2. to make a living; to subsist
3. to be in effect; to be in use; to function
4. to come to life; to be enlivened
5. to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)

Part of speech: ichidan verb, intransitive

Kanji

• 生

  Meanings

  life, genuine, birth

  On reading

  セイ、ショウ

  Kun reading

  い.きる、い.かす、い.ける、う.まれる、うま.れる、う.まれ

  Strokes

  5

Example sentences

• この本はまだ版権が生きている。

  This book is still copyrighted.

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