生
Simplified/traditional character
生 English definition
shēng
- to be born
- to give birth
- life
- to grow
- raw
- uncooked
- student
shēng
- to be born
- to give birth
- life
- to grow
- raw
- uncooked
- student
HSK levels
Characters with the same pronunciation
- 升 : to ascend; to rise to the rank of; to promote; to hoist; liter; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗[dou3];
- 呏 : gallon; quart;
- 声 : voice; sound; tone; noise; classifier for sounds;
- 泩 : rising of water;
- 牲 : domestic animal; sacrificial animal;
- 甥 : sister's son; nephew;
- 笙 : free reed mouth organ, with wooden pipes stuck into a gourd;
- 鼪 : stoat; weasel;
- 𢦑 : Wu
Sentences examples with 生
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习先生怎么样不这儿了？
Xí xiānshēng zěnme yàng bù zhè'erle? -
那些学生不听老师。
Nàxiē xuéshēng bù tīng lǎoshī. -
我的医生是一个好人。
Wǒ de yīshēng shì yīgè hǎorén. -
我爸爸是医生。
Wǒ bàba shì yīshēng. -
我不是学生。
Wǒ bùshì xuéshēng.
Words containing 生, by HSK level
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HSK 1 vocabulary list
- 先生 (xiān sheng) : Mister (Mr.); husband; doctor (topolect); teacher; CL:个[ge4] ,位[wei4]
- 学生 (xué sheng) : student; school child
- 医生 (yī shēng) : doctor; CL:个[ge4] ,位[wei4] ,名[ming2]
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HSK 2 vocabulary list
- 生病 (shēng bìng) : to fall ill; to sicken
- 生日 (shēng rì) : birthday; CL:个
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HSK 3 vocabulary list
- 生气 (shēng qì) : angry; mad; offended; animated; to get angry; to be enraged; to take offense; animation
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HSK 4 vocabulary list
- 出生 (chū shēng) : to be born
- 发生 (fā shēng) : to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- 生活 (shēng huó) : life; activity; to live; livelihood
- 生命 (shēng mìng) : life; living; biological; CL:个
- 生意 (shēng yì ) : life force; vitality;
- 卫生间 (wèi shēng jiān) : bathroom; toilet; WC; CL:间[jian1]
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HSK 5 vocabulary list
- 产生 (chǎn shēng) : to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate; to appear; appearance; emergence; generation; production; yield
- 花生 (huā shēng) : peanut; groundnut; CL:粒[li4]
- 陌生 (mò shēng) : strange; unfamiliar
- 人生 (rén shēng) : human life
- 生产 (shēng chǎn) : to give birth to a child; parturition; to produce; manufacture
- 生动 (shēng dòng) : vivid; lively
- 生长 (shēng zhǎng ) : to grow
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HSK 6 vocabulary list
- 诞生 (dàn shēng) : to be born
- 生存 (shēng cún) : to exist; to survive
- 生机 (shēng jī) : opportunity to live; to reprieve from death; life force; vitality
- 生理 (shēng lǐ) : physiology
- 生疏 (shēng shū) : unfamiliar; strange; out of practice; not accustomed
- 生态 (shēng tài) : way of life; ecology
- 生物 (shēng wù) : organism; living creature; life form; biological; CL:个
- 生效 (shēng xiào) : to take effect; to go into effect
- 生肖 (shēng xiào ) : animal from the Chinese zodiac; one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]
- 生锈 (shēng xiù) : to rust; to grow rusty; to corrode; oxidization
- 生育 (shēng yù) : to bear; to give birth; to grow; to rear; to bring up (children)
- 天生 (tiān shēng) : innate; natural
- 维生素 (wéi shēng sù) : vitamin
- 自力更生 (zì lì gēng shēng) : regeneration through one's own effort (idiom); self-reliance