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    3. 弥生

    弥生

    弥や生よい

    third month of the lunar calendar

    KMT6News #10+1NounHistoryKanji Vocab13 strokes

    やよいいやおい

    Noun

    1.
    third month of the lunar calendar
    obsolete term
    2.
    Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE), Yayoi culture
    historical term
    3.
    thick growth (of grass, etc.)
    archaic

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    弥や生よいは日に本ほんの古ふるい月つきの名な前まえです。

    Yayoi is an old Japanese name for a month.

    KMT4HistoryCulture & Traditions
    弥や生よい時じ代だいには稲いな作さくが始はじまった。

    Rice cultivation began in the Yayoi period.

    KMT6History
    弥や生よい時じ代だいの遺い跡せきがこの地ち域いきで発はっ見けんされた。

    Yayoi period ruins were discovered in this area.

    KMT6History
    弥や生よい土ど器きは縄じょう文もん土ど器きの後あとに作つくられた。

    Yayoi pottery was made after Jomon pottery.

    KMT7HistoryCulture & Traditions
    弥や生よい文ぶん化かは日に本ほんの基き盤ばんを築きずいたと言いわれている。

    It is said that the Yayoi culture laid the foundation of Japan.

    KMT8HistoryCulture & Traditions

    Kanji that make up this word

    弥
    や・いや・いよ.いよ・わた.る…(6)
    all the more・increasingly
    生
    い.きる・い.かす・い.ける・う.まれる・うま.れる・う.まれ…(39)
    life・genuine・birth
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