生み・産み|うみumi[0]heiban (flat)

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Which spelling to use
生み生み is the more common form and the recommended choice for beginners. Use it when writing about birth, giving birth, creating, or bringing something into the world.
産み産み is a less common written variant of 生み. When you encounter it in writing, understand it as the same word, but choose 生み when writing yourself.
Definitions
  1. no-adjectivebirth; giving birth
  2. nouncreating; bringing into the world
    その生うみの国くにであるドイツでは、ホット・ドッグは「フランクフルター」と呼よばれていた。↗
    In its home country of Germany, the hot dog was called the frankfurter.
Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym出産しゅっさんNeutralThe neutral, standard word for childbirth, common in formal use; 「生み」 mostly appears in compounds such as 「生みの親」.
  • Synonymお産おさんCasualColloquial for childbirth, with a warm, familiar feel, as in 「お産が近い」; 「生み」 mostly appears in compounds.
  • Synonym分娩ぶんべんWrittenWritten/formal prose: childbirth as a medical process; 「生み」 mostly appears in compounds.
  • Related産さんWrittenWritten; covers birth or a place of origin, as in 「北海道産」; 「生み」 covers both birth and creation.
  • Antonym殺しころしCasualColloquial for killing; the opposite of 「生み」 in terms of life and death.
  • Antonym滅ぼしWrittenWritten; destroying or bringing to ruin, the opposite of 「生み」 as creating and bringing into the world.

「生み」 mostly appears in compounds like 「生みの親」 and 「生みの苦しみ」 for birth or creation. For childbirth pick 「出産」 or the colloquial 「お産」; medical writing uses 「分娩」; 「産」 marks origin, as in 「北海道産」. The opposite is 「殺し」.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 水みず(塩水えんすい)によって満みたされた、地球ちきゅうの表面ひょうめんのおよそ七なな割わりを覆おおう領域りょういき。海洋かいよう。
  2. 水みずにおおわれた広ひろい場所ばしょ。みずうみ。
  3. あるものの量りょうが多おおく、それによって充満じゅうまんしていることの形容けいよう。
  4. 月面げつめんの黒くろく見みえる部分ぶぶん。月つきの海うみ。
  5. 傷きずから侵入しんにゅうした微生物びせいぶつやそれを排除はいじょした細胞さいぼうなどの死骸しがいからなる老廃物ろうはいぶつ。
  6. (比喩ひゆ)適切てきせつに対応たいおうしなかったことで蓄積ちくせき・定着ていちゃくした悪わるい習慣しゅうかんや慣例かんれい。弊害へいがい。
  7. 出産しゅっさん。
  8. 「うむ」の連用形れんようけい。
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