児

Meaning

児 centers on a young being: a newborn baby, a child, or the young of an animal. It captures the idea of something small and dependent at the start of life.

• 児童じどう
  N3

  children; juvenile

• 鹿児島かごしま

  Kagoshima (city, prefecture)

• 児じ
  N2

  child; boy

• 幼児ようじ
  N3

  young child; toddler

• 育児いくじ
  N2

  childcare; child-rearing; nursing; upbringing

• 小児しょうに

  young child; infant

• 女児じょじ

  girl; baby girl

• 男児だんじ

  boy; son

• 孤児こじ
  N1

  orphan

• 胎児たいじ

  fetus; foetus; embryo; baby in the womb; unborn baby

• 園児えんじ
  N2

  kindergarten pupil; kindergartener; preschooler; child in daycare

• 小児科しょうにか
  N2

  pediatrics

• 乳児にゅうじ
  N3

  infant (below 1 year old); suckling baby

• 問題児もんだいじ

  problem child

• 新生児しんせいじ

  newborn baby

• 乳幼児にゅうようじ
  N1

  babies and preschool children

• 害児がいじ

  retard; moron; cripple

• 球児きゅうじ

  baseball-playing teenager; high-school baseball player

• 稚児ちご

  infant; child

• 託児たくじ

  childcare; day care

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