ようじ
Meanings
Noun
1. young child; toddler
2. child over 1 but not yet of school age
Pitch accent
うじ
Composed of
infancy; childhood; infant; child
child; boy; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
infantile regression
early childhood
preschool education; early childhood education
baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants
pedophile; paedophile
infant mortality rate
infant baptism; pedobaptism; paedobaptism
child pornography
Massacre of the Innocent (infanticide by Herod that appears in the New Testament)
sudden infant death syndrome; SIDS
infant marriage
Examples (8 in total)
Infants are subject to diseases.
The infant has been exposed to radioactive rays.
Young children often mistake fiction for reality.