胎

音読おんよみ: タイ

訓読くんよみ: はら-む

画数かくすう: 9

部首ぶしゅ: 月(にくづき)

Meaning

Pregnancy / Womb / Embryo / To Become Pregnant

  • 胎児たいじ — fetus; unborn baby
  • 胎盤たいばん — placenta
  • 胎内たいない — inside the womb
  • 胎生たいせい — bearing live young (viviparity)
  • 胎教たいきょう — prenatal education; stimulation before birth

On the left, にくづき shows flesh or the body, telling us this kanji is about something happening inside a living body. The right side adds the sound タイ and suggests a base that holds or supports something. Together, pictures a body that holds and protects new life — the womb and the growing embryo.

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