細胞 (saibou)
細胞 (さいぼう, saibou) is a Japanese noun meaning “cell”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- さいぼう
- Romaji
- saibou
- Word class
- Noun
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- cell · noun
- cell (in an organization, esp. a communist party) · noun
Example sentences
この地域社会に住む一人一人は、健康な人間が持つ免疫機構の細胞のようなものだ。
Every person in this community is like a cell in the immune system of a healthy human body.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Kanji in 細胞
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 細胞.
Source: JMdict entry 1295740 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.