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性別 (せいべつ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

性せい別べつ

せ

い

べ

つ

Common wordJLPTN3Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

1

noun

Refers to biological sex or social gender; used in forms, surveys, and everyday contexts.

この書しょ類るいには性せい別べつを記き入にゅうしてください。
Please fill in your sex/gender on this form.
性せい別べつによる差さ別べつは許

ゆる

さ

れ

ない

。

Discrimination based on sex/gender is unacceptable.

Kanji

性sex, gender, nature
別separate, branch off, diverge

Similar words

男だん女じょ
男女 refers to men and women as groups, while 性別 is the abstract category of sex/gender.
性せい
性 is a broader term covering sex, gender, nature, and grammatical gender; 性別 is specifically the distinction between male and female.

Etymology

Compound of 性 (せい, 'sex, nature') and 別 (べつ, 'distinction, difference').