Keyword
give birth
Info
FrequencyTop 700-800
Type
Kyōiku (4th grade) 
?
KankenLevel 7
Heisig1681
Readings
さん
(76%)
(19%)
うぶ
(1%)
ざん
(1%)
Composed of
standing up
cliff
life
Mnemonic

In ancient Sparta when you gave birth you did it standing up on a cliff, and if the child was found disfigured or weak you threw its new life down the cliff.

(At least that's how it worked according to the movie 300.)

Used in kanji (1 in total)
bodhisattva
Used in vocabulary (664 in total)
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
property; fortune; assets
production; manufacture
childbirth; (giving) birth; delivery; production (of goods)
(giving) birth; childbirth; native of; product of; assets; property
industry; (arch.) livelihood; (arch.) occupation
inheritance; bequest; legacy; heritage
mass production
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
property; fortune; means; assets
product; produce; result; fruit
present (brought by a visitor); gift
(corporate) bankruptcy; insolvency; commercial failure; failed business
everything one owns
bankruptcy; insolvency
wealthy person
real estate agent; realtor
producing area
local specialty; special product (of a region)
production; output; turning out
by-product; spin-off; outgrowth; side effect
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
domestic; domestically-produced; produced within a country
parting gift; remembrance; aftereffect
to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)
downy hair; down; vellus hair; lanugo
birth; giving birth; creating; bringing into the world
production output; number of goods manufactured
production increase
being produced in a particular region; local specialty
tales of one's travels
(giving) birth; childbirth; delivery; confinement
communism; collectivism
maternity and gynaecology department (gynecology); department of obstetrics and gynaecology (gynecology)
noted product; local specialty
miscarriage; (spontaneous) abortion; abortive birth
producer; grower; maker; manufacturer
World Heritage (site)
easy delivery; easy childbirth; safe birth
egg-laying; spawning
first cry of a newborn baby
postpartum; after childbirth
pleasant memory to take to the afterlife; good memory; something that makes one feel one can die in peace
souvenir store; gift shop
productive; constructive; meaningful
the Industrial Revolution
maternity leave; paternity leave
animal husbandry; livestock industry
aquatic products; fisheries
inheritance; succession to property
difficult delivery; difficult childbirth; dystocia
famous product; widely known (local) specialty
to give one's first cry (of a newborn baby); to be born; to come into being; to be formed
place of origin; habitat
unproductive; counterproductive
stillbirth
agricultural produce
real estate company; real estate firm; property firm
communism; Communist Party
local specialty; special product (of a region)
postnatal; post partum
result; fruit (of); product (of)
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; METI
fecundity; having many children; abundant production
birth canal
clothes for a newborn baby; baby clothes
to go into labor; to go into labour
plant and equipment; production equipment; productive capacity
obstetrics
a baby's first bath
to bear (a child); to be born; to produce; to yield; to be produced
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
industrial spy; industrial espionage
foreign (product, esp. agricultural); of foreign manufacture
first childbirth
premature birth
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; MAFF
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
personal bankruptcy; voluntary bankruptcy
place of origin (of a plant or animal species, etc.); natural habitat; original home; place of origin (of manufactured goods)
value of one's property (assets); property (asset) value
wealthy individual; person of wealth
to lay; to spawn
munitions industry; war industry
distribution of property
industrial waste
daily output; Nissan (Japanese car company)
innocent; naive; unsophisticated; birth-
to lay; to spawn
location famous for production of something (usually food)
celebration of a birth (usu. approx. one month after birth); gift at the birth of a child; baby gift
to give one's first cry (of a newborn baby); to be born; to come into being; to be formed
trip story; vacation story
direct from the farm; farm-fresh
personal property; personal effects
maternity hospital
pleasant memory to take to the afterlife; good memory; something that makes one feel one can die in peace
intellectual property
expected date of confinement; expected delivery date (of a baby)
it is easier to do something than worry about it; fear overruns the danger; (lit.) it is easier to bear (a child) than to worry about it
confinement (for childbirth); bed used by a woman in childbirth; postpartum period; postnatal period
real estate tax; fixed assets tax; property tax; rates
domestically produced car
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; METI
the industrial world
plant and equipment; production facilities; manufacturing equipment
woman in childbirth; woman who is just about to give birth; woman who has just given birth
marine product; marine (e.g. product, animal etc.)
obstetrician-gynecologist; obstetrician and gynaecologist; ob-gyn
industry; industries
agricultural products
oil-producing countries (nations)
lacking property
local production for local consumption
intellectual property right
souvenir shop
near bankruptcy; edge of bankruptcy; bumper-to-bumper
tourism industry; tourist industry
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
yield; output; production
woman who has given birth
point of production; production site; shop floor
production costs
newborn baby; childbirth
bankrupt person; insolvent person
divine spirit of creation
guardian deity of one's birthplace
country of origin; country of manufacture
family property
defense contractor; defence contractor; defense industry; defence industry
spawning season; breeding season; laying period
asset management; asset management provision
property rights; the right to own property
entirely domestically produced; 100% domestically made
build-to-order manufacturing; BTO
production system; production method; manufacturing system
(former) Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry); MITI
license production; licence production
horse native to Hokkaido; person born and raised in Hokkaido
net worth; net assets; total equity
communist bloc; Iron Curtain
industrial physician; occupational health physician
fraudulent claim of product origin
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
final month of pregnancy; month in which childbirth is due
unproductive; unfruitful
decrease in production
maternity room; delivery room
adjudication of bankruptcy
promotion of industry; encouragement of new industry
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
animal product; livestock product
to grow (of moss, etc.)
production stoppage; discontinuance
parity; having borne children; parous
industrialization; industrialisation
expectant and nursing mothers
real estate world; property market
clothes for a newborn baby; baby clothes
propertied; monied
amount of production
(Japanese) Fisheries Agency
production process; industrial operation
local industry; traditional local industry
chain-reaction bankruptcy; chain bankruptcy
local product; homegrown; homebred
maternity hospital
threatened abortion; imminent abortion; threatened miscarriage; imminent miscarriage
(amount of) production
fixed property; real property; fixed occupation
industrial science and technology; industrial techniques
industry-academic; industry-university
to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)
country of origin (of goods)
industrial association; industrial guild
adjustment of production; production adjustment
rate of output; production rate
medium amount of wealth; middling property; owner of medium wealth
real estate register; real property register
(giving) birth; childbirth; delivery; confinement
reproduction on an enlarged or expanded scale
inheritance; inherited property; heritage
the propertied class; bourgeoisie
(similar to) perinatal; period from around the 28th week of pregnancy to a week after the baby is born
to go into labor; to go into labour
assets freeze; asset freezing
annual production
products of the south seas
spawning grounds; egg-laying site
natural products
sunset industry; declining industry
returning to one's parents' house to give birth; giving birth at one's parents' home
to run through one's fortune (in idleness)
production increase; enhancement of one's fortune
produce museum; commercial museum
Ubume; birthing woman ghost in Japanese folklore; woman in late pregnancy; woman on the point of giving birth
trustee or administrator in bankruptcy
natural heritage; natural heritage site
administration of an estate
postpartum depression; postnatal depression
monthly output (production)
giving birth at home; home delivery; home birth
stillborn baby
partition of an estate (inheritance)
related industries; associated industries
communist regime; communist government
transition to domestic production; import substitution
offspring (esp. livestock); progeny
to run through one's fortune (in idleness)
sheltered work programs; sheltered work programmes; providing with work; giving employment
gender preselection; selection of the sex of offspring
placenta; afterbirth; secundina
number of births (including stillbirths)
succession to or inheritance of property
industry-university cooperation
before and after childbirth
petition for bankruptcy
prior to childbirth
oil industry; petroleum industry
communization; communisation
underlying asset; underlying security; underlier
manufacturing promotion; promotion of production
industrial machinery
to amass a fortune
made-to-order production; job order production; production to order
postpartum period; postnatal period; puerperal period; puerperium
annual production
joint resource; shared resource
chief producing center; chief producing centre
guardian deity of pregnant women, newborn babies and one's birthplace
labor pains; labour pains
private property
nonperforming asset; bad assets; toxic assets
maternity allowance; childbirth allowance
thanksgiving rice dish after childbirth
communist controlled
direct from the farm; farm-fresh
coal mining
(legally) incompetent individual
property tax; estate tax
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
real-estate financing; real-estate loan
to bear (a child); to be born; to produce; to yield; to be produced
producer goods; producer's goods
land products
industrial organization
vocational aid center (centre); vocational-training facility; sheltered workshop
industrial waste disposal facility; wastes treatment facility
rice production
service industry; service sector
domestically produced rice
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
administrator of an estate
freshwater; limnetic
maternity leave; eight weeks of compulsory leave following childbirth, plus an optional further six weeks; paternity leave
industry, government and academia
rice produced
crypto-assets; cryptocurrency assets
business insolvency due to liquidity problems
gold mining
personal bankruptcy caused by excessive card-loan borrowing
productive age; working age
agricultural and marine products
industrial union
marine industries; maritime industry
mineral product; minerals
(amount of) output; production; yield
breeding horses
postpartum depression; postnatal depression
planned delivery; induced labour; induced labor
natural abortion; spontaneous abortion; miscarriage
variety which bears many young
domestic timber; domestically-produced lumber
industrial output; industrial production
products trading company
industry-academic-government (cooperation, etc.)
fisheries science
Japanese Industrial Standards; JIS
industrial reserve force; the ranks of the unemployed
local sweets (sold as a souvenir)
risk asset; risk assets
forest products
tangible fixed assets; tangible property; property, plant and equipment; PPE
livestock farm; animal farm
horse offspring
Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi)
assets on deposit; assets in custody; deposit assets
production engineering; industrial engineering
Ministry of International Trade and Industry
experimental fishery station
financial penalty; pecuniary punishment
product of the land; present; souvenir
a quasi-incompetent (individual)
property ward; special local public body which has its own property, etc. and bears the expenses for it
(former) Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry); MITI
live birth; child born alive
joint manufacturing; joint production; production joint venture
staple product of an industry; core product
work or vocational center (centre)
industrial union (one relating to a specific industry or occupation); vertical union
livestock experiment station; domestic animal research centre
confinement (for childbirth); bed used by a woman in childbirth; postpartum period; postnatal period
Minister of International Trade and Industry
(silkworm) cocoon production
horse native to Hokkaido; person born and raised in Hokkaido
industrial revival or recovery
Minister of International Trade and Industry
low fecundity
Congress of Industrial Organizations (Organisation); CIO
war communism (Russia, 1918-1921); military communism
delayed miscarriage; silent miscarriage; missed abortion
fundamental property; principal; endowment; permanent property
gross real national product; real GNP; RGNP
trip story; vacation story
barren woman; sterile woman
divine spirit of creation
divine spirit of creation
divine spirit of creation
(single-industry) industrial union
to be covered in grass; to be grassy; to be verdant
returning to one's parents' house to give birth; giving birth at one's parents' home
postpartum period; postnatal period; puerperal period; puerperium
increase in the average age of childbirth
maternity allowance; childbirth allowance
one's child; a child one has brought into the world; (arch.) descendant
shrine parishioner
maternity room; delivery room
post-term delivery; postmature delivery
labor pains; labour pains
supporting industries; component and parts-supply industries
management of one's livelihood; management of one's property
baby born feet (or buttocks) first; breech birth
rice-producing region
financial statement; statement of assets
education-related industries
birth control
asset holding company (esp. Commonwealth countries)
net product; net production
interindustry relations table; input-output table
roundabout production
infant-industry argument; theory of infant-industry protection
asset register number
CIM; Computer Integrated Manufacturing
conjugal property; joint ownership property of husband and wife
inventory; stock on hand
inventory; stock on hand
postpartum pelvic support belt
production, sales and inventory; PSI
inheritance tax; estate duty
first-run limited edition production recording
Japanese production; Japanese product
Japanese production; Japanese product
Agricultural Produce Inspection Law
consignment production
domestically bred horse
guardian deity of pregnant women, newborn babies and one's birthplace
labor-intensive industry; labour-intensive industry
habitual abortion; recurrent miscarriage; recurrent fetal loss; recurrent pregnancy loss
thanksgiving rice dish after childbirth
thanksgiving rice dish after childbirth
nationwide consumption of local products
postpartum depression; postnatal depression
maternal mortality rate; maternal mortality ratio
1992 Property Disclosure Act; law requiring members of parliament to disclose their assets
post-term delivery; postmature delivery; giving birth at an above-average age
full-term birth; labor at term (labour); term delivery
progeny test (for beef cattle); reproduction test (for pigs)
litter size; number of offspring
non-oil producing countries; non-oil nation
endemic species; indigenous species
unsellable property; real estate with negative value
country of origin labeling; COOL
woman who has recently given birth
woman who has recently given birth
exhibition hall for promoting tourism and local products
general property; ordinary property
milk fever; parturient paresis; postparturient hypocalcemia
giving birth at home; home delivery; home birth
endangered world heritage site
Examples (200 in total)
Mom, thank you for giving birth to me.
His wife bore him two daughters and a son.
He was blind from birth.