せい
Meanings
Noun
1. life; living
Noun
Suffix
Masculine
Humble
2. I; me; myself
when read as "せい"
Suffix
Abbreviation
3. student
when read as "せい"
Pitch accent
Top 30800
Used in vocabulary (239 in total)
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
pupil; student; schoolchild
fresh; new
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
revival; resuscitation; revitalization; rejuvenation; regeneration
(one's) life
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
aquatic (life); living in the water
student; student who performs housework in exchange for meals and lodging; houseboy (attending school or university)
production; manufacture
elderly person; I; me
resuscitation; regeneration; reformation; rehabilitation; playback; regeneration (sound, etc.)
student (esp. a university student)
private-school student
livelihood; living
life and death
transfer student; student changing schools
annual (plant); first-year student
post-natal; since birth
house where one was born; one's parents' house
primeval; primordial; primitive; pristine
resurrection; resuscitation; regeneration; university student in ... year
university student; college student
elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student
female high-school student
living thing; organism; creature; biology
rebirth; new birth; nascent
student on a scholarship-loan
senior high school student
new student; freshman; first-year student
overseas student; exchange student
to be born; to come into this world
peanut (Arachis hypogaea); groundnut
university student; college student
pupil in ... year; student in ... year
inhabiting; living
student in a higher grade; upperclassman
student preparing for or taking examinations (usu. entrance exams); test-taker
living person; the living
fourth-year student
prefect; praepostor
physiology
birth date; date of birth; DOB
vitality; ability to earn a living
poor student
illegitimate child; bastard; love child
boarding student
I; me
the remainder of one's life
modern Momotarō story version, where he is born inside a peach
transmigration; reincarnation; metempsychosis
junior high school student; middle school pupil
third-year student
while alive; during one's lifetime
life and death
wild; growing wild; living in the wild; (arch.) I
honor student; honours student; model student; prize pupil
life; vitality; verve; vigor; vigour; animation
organism; living body
graduate; alumnus
mode of life; ecology; (animal) territory
rehabilitation; remaking one's life; rebirth; regeneration; coming back to life; revival
student in a lower grade; underclassman
occupation; calling; livelihood
derivation
physiology; menstruation; one's period; menses
boarder; boarding student
I; me; my humble self
scholarship student
product; produce
female university student; female college student
transfer student
garden (esp. with trees); park
raw meat; fresh meat
one's remaining years; the rest of one's life
growing en masse in one location (of plants); living gregariously (of animals); living in flocks, herds, colonies, etc.; all animate creation
half a lifetime
pupil; disciple; follower
longevity
larva; larvae
growth (of a plant)
current student; enrolled student
growing wild (naturally); native
production output; number of goods manufactured
vengeful spirit (spawned from a person's hate); doppelgänger; co-walker; mankind; souls; people
classmate; graduates in the same class; wrestlers who began their professional careers in the same tournament
living thing; animate
middle and high-school students
graduate student; insei; apprentice go professional
natural drugs; natural remedy; herbal medicine; crude drugs; galenical
all living things; mankind; the people; the world
daily supplies; daily necessities; household items; housewares
eugenics
lively; vivid; vigorous; being born and raised; growing up
student waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination
senior (e.g. at school)
public welfare; the people's livelihood
growth; metamorphosis
student of a girls' school
graduate student
first year (college) student; freshman; graduate of one year's standing
medical student
what grade (in school)
research student
scholarship student
graduate of the same school; fellow alumnus; (former) schoolmate
third year (college) student; junior
self-supporting student; working student
biochemistry
one's nature or personality; inherent; innate
eating (something) raw
biometrics; biometric authentication
auditor; auditing student
naturally occurring; nature; disposition; vocation; calling
years of (someone's) birth and death
student teacher; trainee teacher
producing area
living things
trainee; intern
life and death
second year (college) student; sophomore
students attending lectures
student; trainee
unconquered savage; uncivilized aboriginal; aboriginal Taiwanese tribes outside Qing China's jurisdiction
student on field trip
production
living in the present
model or exemplary student
enrolled student; registered student
theological student; seminary student
terrestrial (life); land-dwelling
year of a person's birth; number of years since one's birth; age
crude; immature; unpolished
healthy complexion
art student
failed student; student required to repeat a year
biological tissue
medical student
birthplace
survival
production control; PC
undergraduate
oviparity; produced from eggs
student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
latter half of one's life
viviparity; viviparous; zoogonous; live-bearing
seminar student
graft survival; survival of a transplant; engraftment
taking care of one's health
first half of one's life
philosophy of life
raw noodles; uncooked noodles
the whole life
preparatory-department student
kindergartener; preschooler
junior college student
vitality
opposing pairs (of leaves)
amphibious; amphibian
lifelong separation
endogeny
new field
student repeating the same class
student teacher
amount of production
pupil; student; follower
dense growth; healthy growth
(arch.) birth parents; (arch.) birthplace; child; creation
schoolgirl
bearing twins; twins
exogenous; heterogenous; ectotrophic; extraneous
a matter of life and death
(of plants) growing in clusters; growing gregariously
day student; commuting student
sibling
antibiosis
slow growth; slow ripening
kisaeng (Korean female entertainer)
calorification; thermogenesis
boarder; boarding student
epiphytic; designating a non-parasitic plant that grows on other plants
perennial (plant)
scholarship student
one's previous life
Confucian scholar
illegitimate child
(arch.) prisoner of war (Yayoi period); slaves
orthotropous
verticillation
nine lives (of a cat)
bio-medical; biomedical; medical student
trainee; student
benthic; sea-bottom
byproduct; secondary product
birth and death; years of birth and death
student studying abroad at government expense
production engineering
biodegradable; biodegradability
scholarship student sent by government office or business
biosynthesis
special student
former residence status in Japan for foreign students in Japanese language schools and vocational schools (abolished in 2010)
teething; cutting teeth; dentition
live bacteria; live virus; viable fungus
radical leaf; rosette
winter annual; biennial; biennial plant
halophilous plant
trace fossil
parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)
no mortal escapes death; all men must die; (lit.) he who has life, certainly has death
basal body; basal granule; kinetosome; blepharoplast
biopolitics
conidia; conidiospore; conidium; conidial
Phanerozoic
birth, illness, old age and death
perfoliate leaf
biopower; Foucault's term for the regulation by modern states of their subjects
regular student (undergraduate or graduate)
exchange or research student (as opposed to regular undergraduate or graduate)
normalization; offering people with disabilities the same conditions as other people
private-sphere language; language used in every day life; dialect
Cryptozoic (period)
birth is the beginning of death
officer cadet (JSDF)
aspiring university student who has failed the entrance examinations at least twice
impoverished student; poor student; poor person
Examples (3 in total)
This rule doesn't apply to first-year students.
We were in the first year of middle school last year.
He is in fourth grade of elementary school.