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妊 = 壬 + 女

妊 is a Japanese kanji written with 7 strokes, listed here under the keyword “pregnancy”. It is built from 壬 (porter) and 女 (woman). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 546.

Keyword
pregnancy
RTK frame
546
Strokes
7
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ニン, ジン
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
はら.む, みごも.る
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
беременность
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
妊 conceive

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 壬 porter
  2. 女 woman

How to find 妊 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “porter” + “woman”. 妊 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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