JLPT N1 · Noun

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

  1. cell · noun
  2. 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.