生活|せいかつseikatsu[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, intransitive verblife; living
   収入しゅうにゅうに応おうじた生活せいかつをするように。↗

   You should try to live within your means.

   田舎いなかの生活せいかつにすぐ慣なれるでしょう。↗

   You'll soon get used to living in the country.
2. nounlivelihood; (one's) living

• Synonym暮らしくらしNeutralCovers how one gets by day to day and one's livelihood, with a warm, lived-in feel, as in 「豊かな暮らし」; 「生活」 is the more formal, objective term.
• Synonym起居ききょWrittenWritten word for one's daily routine — rising, sitting, going about the day — with an old-fashioned ring.
• Related生きるいきるNeutralA verb for being alive or surviving, focused on life itself rather than daily routines, as in 「百歳まで生きる」.
• Related暮らすくらすNeutralVerb for living day to day, with an emphasis on where and how you live, as in 「東京で暮らす」.
• Related人生じんせいNeutralMeans one's life as a whole — the course of a lifetime, a longer span than 「生活」.
• Related過ごすすごすNeutralA verb for spending or passing time, as in 「休日を過ごす」.
• RelatedやっていくCasualColloquial: getting by or managing in life, as in 「何とかやっていく」 or 「うまくやっていく」.
• Related生活様式せいかつようしきWrittenWritten term for the way of life shared by a group or society; common in sociology.
• Related生きていくいきていくNeutralTo keep on living, sometimes with a sense of pressing on; 「生活」 centers on daily routines and livelihood.

Default to 「生活」 for life and livelihood. Use 「暮らし」 or 「暮らす」 for getting by day to day, 「生きる」 for being alive, 「過ごす」 for spending time, 「人生」 for one's whole life, and colloquial 「やっていく」 for managing to get on.

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1. 人ひとが暮くらすこと。生いき続つづけるのに必要ひつような反復はんぷくされる一連いちれんの行動こうどう。
2. 動植物どうしょくぶつなどの生命体せいめいたいが生いきて活動かつどうすること。
3. ある特定とくていの領域りょういきに係かかる活動かつどう。特とくにその分野ぶんやを、主おもな収入しゅうにゅう源げんとする場合ばあい。
4. （法医学ほういがく）生命せいめいを有ゆうしていること。