娠 means “pregnancy”

しん · shin

Also: with child

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

シン

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 10 strokes

The story

A woman (女) beside 辰, the part that moves in 振る, to shake, and 震える, to tremble: picture the first kick felt from inside. 娠 lives almost only in 妊娠, pregnancy, from a drugstore 妊娠検査薬 test to 妊娠中 on a form.

Used in 妊娠 (ninshin, pregnancy) and 妊娠中 (ninshinchuu, while pregnant)

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• 婿 son-in-law
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• 嗣 heir
• 哺 nurse
• 戚 relatives
• 氏 family name
• 系 lineage
• 郎 son
• 継 inherit

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