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  • Notice that 漢 is made of several components: 氵 艹 口 夫
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  • Alternatively, look for a component in the list. 氵 艹 口 each have three strokes; 夫 has four strokes
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あの
ひと
人
は
いしゃ
医者
でありまた
だいがく
大学
の
せんせい
先生
でもある。
He is a doctor and a university professor.
Grammar and points of interest
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other forms of です
 
いる / います and ある / あります
 
existence; possession
Conjugations and inflections
  であり is the stem form of irregular 'ru' godan verb である   ALL INFLECTIONS
  ある is the plain form of irregular 'ru' godan verb ある   ALL INFLECTIONS
Words
interjection (kandoushi)
say; well; errr ...
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noun
1. man; person
2. human being; mankind; people
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noun
(medical) doctor; physician  (see also: お医者さん; pol. お医者さん; sensitive)
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be; is  (see also: だ, であります; formal or literary copula)
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adverb, conjunction, prefix
again; and; also; still (doing something)  (often written with kana only)
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noun
1. post-secondary education institution, incl. university, college, etc.  (see also: 総合大学)
2. former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators)  (see also: 大学寮, 国学; abbreviation)
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noun
1. teacher; master; doctor  (honorific)
suffix
2. with names of teachers, etc. as an honorific  (honorific)
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irregular 'ru' godan verb, intransitive verb
1. to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live  (see also: 居る; often written with kana only)
2. to have  (often written with kana only)
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Kanji
人
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
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医
イ    doctor   
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矢
シ   や arrow   
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大
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
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ジン   ニン   ひと man   
匚
side open box
者
シャ   もの person, someone   
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日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
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耂
ロウ   old   おいる    ふける to grow old   
学
ガク   まなぶ to learn   
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子
シ   ス   こ child   
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龸
classroom
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⺌
small
冖
cover; covered   
先
セン   さき ahead   
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⺧
whereupon by the ground
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
K
土
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
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儿
legs
生
セイ   ショウ    life   なま raw   いかす to enliven   いきる to live   いける to arrange flowers   うまれる to be born   うむ to give birth to   き pure, undiluted   おう to grow, to sprout   はえる to grow, to sprout   はやす to grow, cultivate   
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Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
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