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出生届 (しゅっしょうとどけ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

出しゅっ生しょう届とどけ

also: しゅっせいとどけ

しゅ

っ

しょ

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と

ど

け

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Meanings

1

noun

birth registration; birth notification

Official document submitted to a municipal office to register a child's birth; required by Japanese family registration law.

出しゅっ生しょう届とどけは、生うまれた日ひから14日じゅう以内よっかいなに提出いにていしゅつしなければなりません。
A birth registration must be submitted within 14 days of the child's birth.
出しゅっ生しょう

届とどけ

を

出だ

す

とき

に

、

母ぼ

子し

手て

帳ちょう

が

必ひつ

要よう

です

。

When submitting a birth registration, the maternal and child health handbook is required.

Written forms

出生届
- しゅっしょうとどけ
  Standard spelling without okurigana; preferred in legal and administrative documents.
- しゅっせいとどけ
  Alternate reading しゅっせいとどけ is also used, though しゅっしょうとどけ is more common.
出生届け
- しゅっしょうとどけ
  Variant with okurigana け; both spellings are used, but 出生届 is more common in official contexts.
- しゅっせいとどけ
しゅっせいとどけ

Kanji

出exit, leave, go out
生life, genuine, birth
届deliver, reach, arrive

Similar words

婚こん姻いん届とどけ
Marriage registration; similar official notification document, but for marriage rather than birth.
死し亡ぼう届とどけ
Death registration; the counterpart document for reporting a death.

Etymology

Compound of 出生 (しゅっしょう/しゅっせい, 'birth') and 届 (とどけ, 'notification, report'). The reading しゅっしょう is the more traditional Sino-Japanese reading of 出生, while しゅっせい is a later variant.