よう
Meanings
Noun
1. young child; toddler
2. child over 1 but not yet of school age
Kanji used
very young
kid
Pitch accent
うじ
Top 10900
Composed of
infancy; childhood; infant; child
child; boy; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
early childhood
preschool education; early childhood education
Examples (8 in total)
Infants are subject to diseases.
The infant has been exposed to radioactive rays.
Young children often mistake fiction for reality.
Put that medicine out of the baby's reach.
The young woman was carrying an infant in her arms.
Some hospitals hand out free samples of baby milk.
Good nutrition is vital for an infant's growth.
They attributed the low death rate of infants to the progress of medicine.