Kanji Study

Bushu (Radical) Info:
生 (うまれる) – life
立 (たつ) – stand

Henshall Mnemonic: live birth standing on cliff

Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 4
Frequency: #161 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N4 Words

• 産業   [さんぎょう]
  (n) industry   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 生産   [せいさん]
  (n,vs) production; manufacture   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• お土産   [おみやげ]
  (n) present; souvenir   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 財産   [ざいさん]
  (n) property; fortune; assets   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 土産   [みやげ]
  (n) present; souvenir   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 破産   [はさん]
  (n,vs) (personal) bankruptcy   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 原産   [げんさん]
  (n) place of origin; habitat   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 水産   [すいさん]
  (n) marine products; fisheries   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 産地   [さんち]
  (n) producing area   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 農産物   [のうさんぶつ]
  (n) agricultural produce   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 特産   [とくさん]
  (n) specialty; special product   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 畜産   [ちくさん]
  (n) animal husbandry   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 国産   [こくさん]
  (n) domestic products   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 共産   [きょうさん]
  (n) communism   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 産む   [うむ]
  (v5m) to give birth; to deliver; to produce   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 資産   [しさん]
  (n) property; fortune; means; assets   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• お産   [おさん]
  (n) (giving) birth   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 産婦人科   [さんふじんか]
  (n) maternity and gynecology department   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 産物   [さんぶつ]
  (n) product; result; fruit   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 不動産   [ふどうさん]
  (n) real estate   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 出産   [しゅっさん]
  (n) (child)birth; delivery; production (of goods)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 倒産   [とうさん]
  (n,vs) (corporate) bankruptcy; insolvency   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 固定資産   [こていしさん]
  fixed assets   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 海産物   [かいさんぶつ]
  (n) marine products   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 減産   [げんさん]
  (n,vs) reduction in production   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 共産主義   [きょうさんしゅぎ]
  communism; collectivism   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 助産婦   [じょさんぷ]
  (n) midwife   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 共産党   [きょうさんとう]
  Communist Party   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 原産地   [げんさんち]
  (n) place of origin; home; habitat   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 遺産   [いさん]
  (n) inheritance; bequest   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 水産業   [すいさんぎょう]
  (n) fisheries industry   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 妊産婦   [にんさんぷ]
  (n) expectant and nursing mothers   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 水産庁   [すいさんちょう]
  (Japanese) Fisheries Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 水産物   [すいさんぶつ]
  (n) marine products   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 単産   [たんさん]
  (n) (single-industry) industrial union   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 産科   [さんか]
  (n) obstetrics   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 産業界   [さんぎょうかい]
  the industrial world   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 月産   [げっさん]
  (n) monthly output (production)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 文化遺産   [ぶんかいさん]
  (n) cultural heritage   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 年産   [ねんさん]
  (n) annual production   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 産児制限   [さんじせいげん]
  birth control   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 通産省   [つうさんしょう]
  Ministry of International Trade and Industry; MITI   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 産品   [さんぴん]
  (n) products   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 通産相   [つうさんしょう]
  (n) Minister of International Trade and Industry   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 物産   [ぶっさん]
  (n) product   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 産別   [さんべつ]
  (n) (abbr) industrial union   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 産油国   [さんゆこく]
  (n) oil-producing countries (nations)   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 産 at jisho.org, Yookoso! or WWWJDIC

Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.