娩
bear (children)
Readings
On'yomi
- ベン
Kun'yomi
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Meaning
娩 centers on the act of giving birth: bearing children. It is specifically associated with childbirth and delivery.
Most common words using 娩
20 of 24- 分娩ぶんべん
childbirth; delivery
- ハイリスク分娩ハイリスクぶんべん
high-risk delivery
- 分娩予定日ぶんべんよていび
date a baby is due; expected delivery date; due date
- 分娩作用ぶんべんさよう
delivery; parturition
- 分娩台ぶんべんだい
(childbirth) delivery table; birthing table
- 分娩室ぶんべんしつ
maternity room; delivery room
- 分娩時ぶんべんじ
time of delivery (of a child)
- 分娩期ぶんべんき
time of delivery (of a child)
- 分娩臥床ぶんべんがしょう
lying-in bed
- 吸引分娩きゅういんぶんべん
vacuum delivery
- 和痛分娩わつうぶんべん
delivery with little pain (i.e. through the use of pain-reducing drugs excluding epidurals)
- 多胎分娩たたいぶんべん
(a) multiple birth; childbirth resulting in twins, triplets, etc.
- 娩出べんしゅつ
expulsion (of a baby)
- 娩出期べんしゅつき
expulsion stage (of labour); expulsive stage
- 座位分娩ざいぶんべん
delivery in a sitting position; giving birth sitting
- 擬娩ぎべん
couvade (custom in which a male acts out the physical process of his own child being born)
- 棺内分娩かんないぶんべん
coffin birth; postmortem fetal extrusion
- 無痛分娩むつうぶんべん
obstetric analgesia during labor and delivery (e.g. epidural); painless childbirth
- 異常分娩いじょうぶんべん
abnormal delivery
- 立会い分娩たちあいぶんべん
childbirth with father of child present; delivery with husband present
Study
Etymology
娩 combines 女 (woman) with 免, which likely contributes the sound and may relate to the idea of delivery or release. The exact historical development of 免 in this context is uncertain.
Meaning mnemonic
A woman 女 beside 免, which looks like a figure bending forward. Picture a woman in labor, bending forward as she bears a child.
Reading mnemonic
For ベン, imagine a woman giving birth on a bench: bench -> ベン, and the scene ties to the kanji's meaning of bearing children.