Word Meaning 性質

せいしつ seishitsu

性質 is read as せいしつ (seishitsu) and means nature.

Meaning

English

  1. nature
  2. property
  3. disposition

Reading

Kana

せいしつ

Romaji

seishitsu

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 23 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 5 Kanken 6級 Rank 3765 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

生理活性物質

せいりかっせいぶっしつ

biologically active substance

可塑性物質

かそせいぶっしつ

plastic materials

自己反応性物質

じこはんのうせいぶっしつ

self-reactive substance

化学的性質

かがくてきせいしつ

chemical property

放射性物質

ほうしゃせいぶっしつ

radioactive material

核分裂性物質

かくぶんれつせいぶっしつ

fissile material

残留性有機汚染物質

ざんりゅうせいゆうきおせんぶっしつ

persistent organic pollutant

劣性遺伝形質

れっせいいでんけいしつ

recessive trait

間質性

かんしつせい

interstitial

異質性

いしつせい

heterogeneity

器質性

きしつせい

organic

Example Sentences

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Oil floats on water.

When he begins to do anything, he devotes himself to it.

Gelatine has the property of setting as it cools.

Confidence and courage are not exclusively masculine traits—they are values that everyone can aspire to.

Only in novels do you find individuals who live out their whole life with unvarying character.

Since primary school we've been checking for the qualities known as acidity and alkalinity with litmus paper.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

In the end, "feminity" is something that a woman is naturally furnished with, there is no need to make any effort to show it, and it's a quality such that even if one were to make conscious efforts to hide it, it would lead to nothing.

In the end, "feminity" is something that a woman is naturally furnished with, there is no need to make any effort to show it, and it's a quality such that even if one were to make conscious efforts to hide it, it would lead to nothing.

It's true that I've been a writer before, but that felt more like I was a worker rather than a creator. It wasn't the nature of the work itself so much as my own mindset about it.