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新鮮 (しんせん, shinsen) Japanese meaning: fresh | Kotomora
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The mountain air is fresh and pleasant.
His ideas are always fresh.
Usage patterns 新しん 鮮せん な 〈 物もの 〉 fresh ~ (food, air, etc.)
I bought fresh fish at the market.
新しん 鮮せん な 空くう 気き fresh air
I breathed fresh air on top of the mountain.
新しん 鮮せん さを 保たも つ to keep something fresh
You keep vegetables fresh in the refrigerator.
新しん 鮮せん に 感かん じる to feel fresh/new (about an experience or idea)
My first trip abroad felt very fresh and new to me.
Related words· 12 新しい is the general word for 'new' (objects, information, styles), while 新鮮 specifically stresses freshness in quality, taste, or feel.
生 means 'raw/uncooked' and can suggest freshness for food, but 新鮮 is broader and covers abstract freshness like ideas or air too.
新鮮 describes freshness in a general sense (fresh vegetables, fresh air), while 出来たて specifically means something just finished being made or cooked.
新鮮 is a general term for freshness that can describe anything from food to ideas, while 取れたて specifically means something has just been harvested or caught, stressing immediacy.
Show 8 more 新鮮 is the common, everyday word for 'fresh' (food, air, ideas), while 生鮮 is more restricted to commercial or technical contexts, especially in compounds like 生鮮食品.
新鮮 means 'fresh' in the sense of newness or lack of staleness, often for food or ideas, while 瑞々しい adds a sense of juiciness and lively vitality.
新鮮 is the standard Japanese word for freshness (especially of food), while フレッシュ is a loanword used more casually, often for produce, juice, or a youthful feel.
新鮮 is a na-adjective meaning 'fresh', while 鮮度 is a noun that measures the degree of freshness, often used in commercial or scientific contexts like 鮮度が高い魚.
Opposites 古い describes something old or stale, the direct opposite of 新鮮 for food, ideas, or feelings.
新鮮 describes food or matter that is fresh and unspoiled, the opposite of 腐敗 in its physical sense of rotting.
新鮮 means 'fresh' or 'novel', the direct opposite of 陳腐, which means stale or hackneyed.
Written forms 新しん 鮮せん Usage 100%
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency word.
シンセン Usage <1%
Etymology From Middle Chinese 新鮮 (sjen sjen), meaning 'new and fresh'. The kanji 新 means 'new' and 鮮 means 'fresh, vivid'.
新鮮 is a general adjective for freshness, while 取り立て specifically describes something just picked or caught, usually used with の before a noun.
新鮮 is the everyday word for freshness, used for food as well as feelings, while 清新 is more formal and usually describes an impression, style, or atmosphere.
新鮮 is the common adjectival-noun for freshness in general, whereas 生き appears mainly in the fixed expression 生きがいい to praise the vitality of live seafood or produce.
新鮮 is a neutral or positive word for 'fresh' (as with food or ideas), while 生々しい implies something raw and often unpleasant, like a fresh wound.
新鮮 describes something fresh and full of novelty, the opposite of マンネリ, which describes something that has become stale and repetitive.
