幼稚

ようち · youchi · JLPT N2 · noun

childish

🍼 幼 (young) + 稚 (young, immature) = two 'young' characters stacked, meaning infancy or childish

幼 means young or infant, and 稚 means immature or young. Together 幼稚 covers both the stage of infancy and behavior that is childish. In everyday speech it is usually negative, like 'infantile'.

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