Illustration: An elderly woman opens her small neighborhood sewing room as familiar children crowd eagerly around her. She beams at a child proudly wearing a slightly crooked handmade apron, already reaching to help another thread a needle.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

生いきがい

ikigai

something to live for

Example sentences

  1. 彼女かのじょは息子むすこが生いきがいです。

    Her son makes life worth living.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 長生ながいきの秘訣ひけつは、生いき甲斐がいを持もつ事ことだそうだ。

    It is said that the secret of long life is to have something to live for.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしたちは何なにか生いきがいを持もたなければならない。

    We must have something to live for.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 生

  • 生life; genuineOnセイ・ショウKunいきる・いかす・いける

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store