Illustration: In the narrow garden behind a Japanese row house, an old tree stump has sent up a vigorous cluster of fresh shoots. Its broken, weathered trunk is visibly damaged, yet new leaves spread above it and roots press through a crack in the surrounding paving.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

生せい命めい力りょく

seimeiryoku

vitality, life force

Example sentences

  1. 松まつ・竹たけ・梅うめにオシドリ・セキレイ・丹頂鶴たんちょうづるなどを組くみ合あわせた花鳥図かちょうずで、生命力せいめいりょくにあふれている。

    The images brimming with life include combinations of plants and birds such as pine trees, bamboo, ume, mandarin ducks, wagtails and Japanese red-crowned cranes.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. ハモの水揚みずあげが多おおくない京都きょうとにおいてなぜハモを食たべる文化ぶんかが発達はったつしたかについては、輸送技術ゆそうぎじゅつが発達はったつしていなかった頃ころ、夏なつに京都きょうとまで生いきたまま輸送ゆそうできた、生命力せいめいりょくの非常ひじょうに強つよい数少かずすくない魚さかなだったことによる。

    The reason why Kyoto, even though conger pike is not caught in the area so much, has developed a tradition to eat it is because it is one of the handful of fish with very strong vitality which could be transported live to Kyoto in the summer before modern high-speed transport developed.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. すなわち、葦あしの芽めに象徴しょうちょうされる万物ばんぶつの生命力せいめいりょくを神格化しんかくかした神かみである。

    Thus, it is a god deifying the vitality of all things symbolized by reed buds.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 生命力

  • 生life; genuineOnセイ・ショウKunいきる・いかす・いける
  • 命fate; commandOnメイ・ミョウKunいのち
  • 力power; strengthOnリョク・リキ・リイKunちから

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