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
(one's) life
revival; resuscitation; revitalization; rejuvenation; regeneration
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
resurrection; resuscitation; regeneration; university student in ... year
primeval; primordial; primitive; pristine
elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student
female high-school student
university student; college 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
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
overseas student; exchange student
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
rehabilitation; remaking one's life; rebirth; regeneration; coming back to life; revival
mode of life; ecology; (animal) territory
student in a lower grade; underclassman
occupation; calling; livelihood
physiology; menstruation; one's period; menses
derivation
boarder; boarding student
I; me; my humble self
scholarship student
product; produce
female university student; female college student
garden (esp. with trees); park
transfer student
raw meat; fresh meat
one's remaining years; the rest of one's life
half a lifetime
growing en masse in one location (of plants); living gregariously (of animals); living in flocks, herds, colonies, etc.; all animate creation
longevity
pupil; disciple; follower
growth (of a plant)
larva; larvae
current student; enrolled student
growing wild (naturally); native
vengeful spirit (spawned from a person's hate); doppelgänger; co-walker; mankind; souls; people
production output; number of goods manufactured
living thing; animate
middle and high-school students
classmate; graduates in the same class; wrestlers who began their professional careers in the same tournament
graduate student; insei; apprentice go professional
all living things; mankind; the people; the world
daily supplies; daily necessities; household items; housewares
eugenics
natural drugs; natural remedy; herbal medicine; crude drugs; galenical
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
medical student
what grade (in school)
first year (college) student; freshman; graduate of one year's standing
research student
scholarship student
graduate of the same school; fellow alumnus; (former) schoolmate
self-supporting student; working student
one's nature or personality; inherent; innate
biochemistry
biometrics; biometric authentication
naturally occurring; nature; disposition; vocation; calling
eating (something) raw
years of (someone's) birth and death
student teacher; trainee teacher
third year (college) student; junior
living things
producing area
trainee; intern
life and death
second year (college) student; sophomore
student; trainee
unconquered savage; uncivilized aboriginal; aboriginal Taiwanese tribes outside Qing China's jurisdiction
students attending lectures
student on field trip
production
model or exemplary student
enrolled student; registered student
living in the present
theological student; seminary student
terrestrial (life); land-dwelling
crude; immature; unpolished
healthy complexion
art student
year of a person's birth; number of years since one's birth; age
failed student; student required to repeat a year
auditor; auditing student
medical student
biological tissue
birthplace
production control; PC
undergraduate
survival
latter half of one's life
student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
seminar student
graft survival; survival of a transplant; engraftment
viviparity; viviparous; zoogonous; live-bearing
first half of one's life
taking care of one's health
philosophy of life
oviparity; produced from eggs
the whole life
preparatory-department student
kindergartener; preschooler
junior college student
vitality
raw noodles; uncooked noodles
amphibious; amphibian
lifelong separation
opposing pairs (of leaves)
endogeny
student repeating the same class
student teacher
new field
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
kisaeng (Korean female entertainer)
calorification; thermogenesis
slow growth; slow ripening
boarder; boarding student
epiphytic; designating a non-parasitic plant that grows on other plants
scholarship student
perennial (plant)
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
student studying abroad at government expense
production engineering
birth and death; years of birth and death
scholarship student sent by government office or business
biodegradable; biodegradability
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.