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新入生
しんにゅうせい
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new student, first-year student, freshman
Shin'nyūsei is 新入 (shinnyū, “newly-entered”) plus 生 (-sei, “student”), first cited to 1899.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
私は新入生です。
I am a new student.
君達は新入生です。
You are new students.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Compound of 新入(しんにゅう) (shinnyū, “newly-entered”) + 生(せい) (-sei, “student”).”
- “First cited to 1899.”
Source: Wiktionary: 新入生 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.