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生活 (せいかつ, seikatsu) Japanese meaning: life | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N5 › Freq. Frequency Top 500 Conjugation 生活する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 生せい 活かつ する 生せい 活かつ しない Polite 生せい 活かつ します 生せい 活かつ しません Past polite 生せい 活かつ しました 生せい 活かつ しませんでした Past 生せい 活かつ した 生せい 活かつ しなかった Te-form 生せい 活かつ して 生せい 活かつ しないで Desire 生せい 活かつ したい 生せい 活かつ したくない Potential 生せい 活かつ できる 生せい 活かつ できない Passive 生せい 活かつ される 生せい 活かつ されない Causative 生せい 活かつ させる 生せい 活かつ させない Causative passive 生せい 活かつ させられる 生せい 活かつ させられない Volitional 生せい 活かつ しよう Polite volitional 生せい 活かつ しましょう Imperative 生せい 活かつ しろ 生せい 活かつ するな Conditional 生せい 活かつ すれば 生せい 活かつ しなければ Tara conditional 生せい 活かつ したら 生せい 活かつ しなかったら
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Life in the countryside is relaxed.
Usage patterns 〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 で 生せい 活かつ する to live one's life / reside in a place
生せい 活かつ が 苦くる しい one's financial situation is difficult
Prices went up, so making a living has become hard.
〈 人ひと 〉 と 生せい 活かつ する to live together with someone
She lives with her parents.
生せい 活かつ のために 働はたら く to work in order to make a living
My father works every day to support the family's livelihood.
生せい 活かつ を 支ささ える to support (someone's) livelihood
Her part-time job supports the family's livelihood.
Expressions· 7 生せい 活かつ に 困こま る struggle financially; live in poverty; have difficulty making ends meet Show 2 more Kanji 活 lively, resuscitation, being helped Related words· 12 暮らし is a native Japanese word evoking a warm, personal sense of daily living, while 生活 is the neutral, often formal or economic term for life/living.
生計 narrowly means the means of earning a living, while 生活 covers both the economic side and the broader daily-life sense.
人生 refers to one's whole life span from birth to death with a philosophical tone, whereas 生活 focuses on the day-to-day routine of living.
生活 is the broad, everyday Japanese word for daily life or living in general, while ライフスタイル highlights the personal style, habits, and values behind that living.
Show 8 more 生活 is the broad, neutral word for daily life or livelihood, while 暮らし振り zooms in on the particular style or condition in which someone lives.
生活する is a more formal, abstract word for living or leading a life, whereas 暮らす is the everyday, concrete verb.
生活 focuses on daily living and livelihood, whereas ライフ is more abstract and often appears in compounds like ライフスタイル.
生活 is the standalone noun meaning 'life/living', whereas 活 in this sense only appears bound inside compounds such as 生活 itself.
Don't confuse with 生涯 means one's entire lifetime or career span, while 生活 means everyday living or livelihood, so learners can mix up the timeframe each word covers.
生活 shares the kanji 活 with 活動 but means 'daily life,' not 'activity,' so learners should not confuse the two despite the visual overlap.
死活 (life-and-death stakes) and 生活 (everyday life/living) look similar but mean very different things—learners sometimes misread one for the other.
Word family· 116 eating habits; diet; dietary pattern
private life; personal life
real life; actual life; everyday life
Written forms 生せい 活かつ Usage 100%
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency word.
セイカツ Usage 0%
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound from Chinese 生活, combining 生 “live” and 活 “be active; sustain life.” It came to denote one’s manner or means of living and everyday life.
生活 means 'life' or 'living' in a broad sense, whereas 日常生活 narrows it down to the everyday, routine aspects of that life.
生活 is the plain word for 'life/living', whereas 営み is a more formal, literary term that highlights the ongoing activities that make up that life.
生活 is the everyday, general word for a person's daily life, whereas 民生 is a formal administrative term for the collective livelihood/welfare of the citizenry.
生活 refers to daily living or livelihood in a practical sense, whereas 生き方 emphasizes the manner or philosophy behind how one lives.
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hardships of life; financial struggles
consumers' cooperative; co-op
Show 10 more living expenses; cost of living
everyday life; daily life
housing conditions; residential life; manner of housing
public life
dormitory life; life in a dorm
sex life; sexual activities
new life; fresh start; new routine
vitality; ability to earn a living
life cycle; life history
daily living sphere; neighborhood; zone of life
