肉親 (nikushin)
blood relationship, blood relative
- JLPT N1
- Pitch 0
- #19206 most frequent
Meaning
肉親 (にくしん, nikushin) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “blood relationship, blood relative”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 9
彼女にとって祖母が唯一の肉親だ
Her grandmother is her only blood relative.
彼女は肉親の一人を失った。
She lost one of her flesh and blood.
肉親も及ばないご親切を頂きました.
You have shown the sort of kindness that I couldn't expect even from my own family.
人々は行方不明の肉親の知らせを気にかけていた。
People were anxious for news of missing relatives.
《諺》慈愛は家庭から始まる,愛はまず肉親より.
Charity begins at home; love starts with one's own family.
肉親が死んでも弔う体力もなく屍骸は放置される。
"Even if one's immediate family died, the remaining family had no strength to perform religious rites and dead bodies were left as they were.
肉親の情愛が強調されるほど、権太の自己犠牲が悲劇性を帯びてくる。
The more the love of relatives is focused upon, the more the self-sacrifice of Gonta becomes tragic.
動物の肉親への情愛を描くことで、肉親同士が争う人間の非道さが浮き彫りになるという構成が優れている。
The structure, which focuses on the villainy of human beings by comparing the love of animals towards their relatives with human beings where even blood-relatives fight against each other, is excellent.
私の肉親関係のうちにも、ひとり、行い正しく、固い信念を持って、理想を追及してそれこそ本当の意味で生きているひとがあるのだけれど、親類のひとみんな、そのひとを悪く言っている。馬鹿あつかいしている。
I have amongst my relatives, a single one who sincerely lives righteously, has strict principles and pursues an ideal, but all my other relatives speak ill and make fun of him.