- 先生【せんせい】 - teacher, instructor, master, sensei, title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc., intimate or teasing form of address, one's elder 
- 生きる【いきる】 - to live, to exist, to make a living, to subsist, to be in effect, to be in use, to function, to come to life, to be enlivened, to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.) 
- 人生【じんせい】 - (one's) life 
- 生徒【せいと】 - pupil, student, schoolchild 
- 生活【せいかつ】 - life, living, livelihood, (one's) living 
- 一生【いっしょう】 - whole life, a lifetime, all through life, one existence, a generation, an age, the whole world, the era, (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life 
- 生まれる【うまれる】 - to be born 
- 学生【がくせい】 - student (esp. a university student) 
- 誕生日【たんじょうび】 - birthday 
- 発生【はっせい】 - occurrence, incidence, outbreak, birth (e.g. of civilization), generation (of power, heat, etc.), production, ontogeny, development, growth, breeding 
- 先生【せんじょう】 - teacher, instructor, master, previous existence 
- 先生【シーサン】 - man, boy 
- 生物【せいぶつ】 - living thing, organism, creature, life, biology 
- 生かす【いかす】 - to make (the best) use of, to put to good use, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc.), to let live, to keep alive, to revive, to resuscitate, to bring back to life, to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading) 
- 生命【せいめい】 - life, existence, (one's) working life, career, life force, lifeblood, soul, essence 
- 誕生【たんじょう】 - birth, creation, formation 
- 年生【ねんせい】 - nth-year student, nth-year pupil 
- 一生懸命【いっしょうけんめい】 - very hard, with utmost effort, as hard as one can, with all one's might, for dear life, eagerly, desperately 
- 再生【さいせい】 - restoration to life, coming to life again, resuscitation, regeneration, reformation, rehabilitation, recycling, reclamation, recovery, playback, regeneration (of video or sound), views (of an online video), regeneration (of lost or damage tissue), regrowth, rebirth, reincarnation, recall (memory), retrieval 
- 学生【がくしょう】 - Heian-period student of government administration, Buddhist scholar, researcher at a Buddhist temple, person studying Buddhism, learning, scholarship