再さい生せい

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb

revival; restoration to life; regeneration

Broad use for something coming back to life, vitality, or a functioning state. For emergency medical resuscitation, 蘇生 is often the more specific word.

• 枯かれたように見みえた植しょく物ぶつが、春はるになると再さい生せいした。

  The plant that had looked dead came back to life in spring.

• その小しょう説せつには、死し者しゃを再さい生せいする装そう置ちが登とう場じょうする。

  The novel features a device that restores the dead to life.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

rehabilitation; reformation; turnaround

Used for rehabilitating or reforming a person, organization, community, or system so that it can function properly again; common in formal compounds such as 企業再生.

• 破は綻たん寸すん前ぜんだった企き業ぎょうの再さい生せいを、専せん門もん家かチームが支し援えんした。

  A team of specialists supported the rehabilitation of the company that had been on the verge of collapse.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

recycling; reclamation; recovery

Used when waste material, old products, or resources are processed or reclaimed for use again.

• 古こ紙しを再さい生せいして、新あたらしい紙かみにする。

  They recycle wastepaper into new paper.

• 廃はい材ざいを家か具ぐとして再さい生せいする。

  They reclaim scrap wood and turn it into furniture.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

playback; playing audio or video; views

Media and device use: playing recorded sound or video. In online video contexts, 再生 can also count as a view or play.

• 録ろく音おんを再さい生せいして、発はつ音おんを確かく認にんした。

  I played back the recording to check the pronunciation.

• その動どう画がは一いち日にちで十じゅう万まん回かい再さい生せいされた。

  That video was played one hundred thousand times in a day.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb

biological regeneration; regrowth

Biological or medical use for lost or damaged tissue, organs, or body parts growing back or being regenerated.

• プラナリアは切きられても体からだを再さい生せいできる。

  A planarian can regenerate its body even after being cut.

• 研けん究きゅう者しゃたちは、失うしなわれた組そ織しきを再さい生せいする技ぎ術じゅつを開かい発はつしている。

  Researchers are developing technology to regenerate lost tissue.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

rebirth; reincarnation

Less common than 転生 for reincarnation. Often appears in religious, philosophical, or literary discussion of being born again after death.

• 宗しゅう教きょう的てきな文ぶん脈みゃくでは、再さい生せいが死し後ごの生うまれ変かわりを指さすことがある。

  In religious contexts, 再生 can refer to rebirth after death.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb

memory recall; retrieval

Psychology term for retrieving or reproducing information from memory; outside this field, 想起 or 思い出す is often more transparent.

• 心しん理り学がくでは、学がく習しゅうした情じょう報ほうを思おもい出だす過か程ていを記き憶おくの再さい生せいという。

  In psychology, the process of recalling learned information is called memory retrieval.