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1 exact word match found in search 'いのち'
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Most common form:
noun
1. life; life force  (see also: 生命; sometimes written as 生命)
2. lifetime; lifespan
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11 words found beginning with 'いのち'
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Most common form: 命がけ
1. risking one's life  (see also: 命をかける)
2. life and death; risky; desperate
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noun
telephone counselling service  (see also: ライフライン)
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Most common form: 命取り
fatal; deadly; mortal
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Most common form: 命辛辛
for dear life; barely escaping alive
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Most common form: 命を捨てる
expression, ichidan verb
to give one's life; to lay down one's life
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expression, noun
1. water of life; life-giving water
2. distilled liquor (brandy, whisky, etc.); spirits  (idiomatic expression)
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expression
with one's life (protect, etc.); at the cost of one's life
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Most common form: 命を取り留める
expression, ichidan verb
to escape death; to be saved from death  (see also: 一命を取り留める:いちめいをとりとめる)
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expression, 'tsu' godan verb
1. to end one's life; to commit suicide
2. to end a life; to kill
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expression, 'u' godan verb
to narrowly escape death; to have a narrow escape from death
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11 partial word matches found in search 'いのち'
particle
strengthens a question, assertion, etc.  (see also: かい, ぞい, だい, わい; familiar language)
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noun
1. stomach
2. Chinese "stomach" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)  (see also: 胃宿, 白虎; astronomy, etc. term)
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noun
well
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noun, noun (suffix)
medicine; the healing art; healing; curing; doctor
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greatness
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counter
1. rank; place (e.g. first place)
2. decimal place
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particle
1. indicates possessive  (see also: ; occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
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noun
1. plain; field
2. hidden (structural) member  (this meaning is restricted to reading の)
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1. later; afterwards; since  (often written with kana only)
2. future  (often written with kana only)
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noun
blood; consanguinity
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noun, noun (suffix)
1. earth; ground; land; soil
2. place
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