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育児 (いくじ, ikuji) Japanese meaning: childcare | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N2 › Freq. Frequency Top 10,000 Conjugation 育児する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 育いく 児じ する 育いく 児じ しない Polite 育いく 児じ します 育いく 児じ しません Past polite 育いく 児じ しました 育いく 児じ しませんでした Past 育いく 児じ した 育いく 児じ しなかった Te-form 育いく 児じ して 育いく 児じ しないで Desire 育いく 児じ したい 育いく 児じ したくない Potential 育いく 児じ できる 育いく 児じ できない Passive 育いく 児じ される 育いく 児じ されない Causative 育いく 児じ させる 育いく 児じ させない Causative passive 育いく 児じ させられる 育いく 児じ させられない Volitional 育いく 児じ しよう Polite volitional 育いく 児じ しましょう Imperative 育いく 児じ しろ 育いく 児じ するな Conditional 育いく 児じ すれば 育いく 児じ しなければ Tara conditional 育いく 児じ したら 育いく 児じ しなかったら
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に
仕し
事ごと
を
辞や
め
た
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She quit her job to focus on childcare.
More men are taking childcare leave.
Usage patterns 育いく 児じ 休きゅう 暇か をとる to take childcare leave
My husband also decided to take childcare leave.
育いく 児じ と 仕し 事ごと を 両りょう 立りつ させる to balance childcare and work
Balancing childcare and work is difficult.
育いく 児じ に 追お われる to be overwhelmed with childcare duties
I'm swamped with childcare every day and have no time for myself.
育いく 児じ に 協きょう 力りょく する to help out with childcare
It really helps that my husband cooperates with the childcare.
Kanji 育 bring up, grow up, raise 児 newborn babe, child, young of animals Related words 子育て is the casual, everyday word for raising children, while 育児 sounds more formal and is common in institutional or policy contexts.
保育 refers specifically to caring for and educating young children in a nursery or daycare setting, while 育児 covers child-rearing more broadly, including at home.
養育 is a legal or formal term emphasizing the duty to support and raise a child, whereas 育児 is the general, everyday word for the day-to-day work of parenting.
育児 is the broad, everyday word for raising/caring for a child, while マザリング is a specialized term stressing the maternal, nurturing bond, often used in psychology.
育児 refers specifically to caring for and raising infants or young children, while 育て is a broader term that can apply to raising children, animals, or plants.
Word family· 18 pouch (of a marsupial); marsupium
baby nursery; day nursery; crèche
pedology; child development studies
nursery; childcare room
Etymology Compound of 育 (raise, bring up) and 児 (child). The reading いくじ is the standard on'yomi combination.
child-rearing book; parenting book
Show 5 more child-rearing method; parenting practice
baby talk; caregiver speech
orphanage; nursery school
baby food; food for infants
shared parenting; co-parenting
