よう
Meanings
Noun
1. young child; toddler
2. child over 1 but not yet of school age
Kanji used
very young
kid
Pitch accent
うじ
Top 10900
Composed of
infancy; childhood; infant; child
child; boy; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
early childhood
preschool education; early childhood education
baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants
infant baptism; pedobaptism; paedobaptism
Massacre of the Innocent (infanticide by Herod that appears in the New Testament)
child pornography
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.