Illustration: A family gathers on the engawa of their home for a portrait: two parents and their three sons. The eldest, a teenager in a school uniform, stands beside the father; the second, a primary-school boy, sits between his older brother and the infant boy held by their mother.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

次じ男なん

jinan

second son

Example sentences

農家のうかの次男じなんに生うまれる。
He was born as the second son of a farmer.
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近衛家このえけの二男じなんとして生うまれる。
He was born as the second son of the Konoe family.
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酒造業しゅぞうぎょうの次男じなんであった。
He was the second son of a sake brewer
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Kanji in 次男

次next; orderOnジ・シKunつぐ・つぎ
男man; maleOnダン・ナンKunおとこ・お

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