Meaning & readings
pregnancy
Origin
This character combines the component for woman or female on the left with a sound hint on the right. The left side, which shows a woman in a simplified form, indicates that this character relates to women and their bodies. The right component serves purely as a pronunciation guide, helping readers know roughly how to say the character rather than adding to its meaning. Together, the character visually represents a woman in the context of pregnancy, one of the most significant biological processes involving the female body.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 女
- 壬
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 7
- Kangxi radical
- 38
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1413 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+0598A