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生
Pinyin: shēng
English Definition: to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student
Chinese Definition:
①一切可以发育的物体在一定条件下具有了最初的体积和重量，并能发展长大：诞生。滋生。生长。
②造出：生产。
③活的，有活力的：生存。生命。生物。生机。出生入死。舍生取义。
④有生命的东西的简称：众生。丧生。卫生。
⑤生活，维持生活的：生计。生意。
⑥整个生活阶段：一生。平生。今生。
⑦发出，起动：生病。生气。生效。生花之笔。谈笑风生。
⑧使燃料燃烧起来：生火。
⑨植物果实不成熟：生瓜。
⑩未经烧煮或未烧煮熟的：生饭。生水。
⑾不熟悉的，不常见的：生疏。生客。生字。陌生。
⑿不熟练的：生手。
⒀未经炼制的。生铁。
⒁硬：态度生硬。生吞活剥。
⒂甚，深：生怕。生疼。
⒃正在学习的人：学生。门生。
⒄有学问或有专业知识的人：儒生。医生。
⒅传统戏剧里扮演男子的角色：小生。老生。武生。
⒆词尾：好生休养。
⒇姓氏。
Antonyms: 熟 师 死 卒
Total strokes: 5; Radical: 生
Ideographic: A shoot 屮 growing in the soil 土
Character Formation:
  • ⿻ Overlaid
    • 一 [ yī ] one; a, an; alone
    • 土 [ tǔ ] soil, earth; items made of earth
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Example Words
生活 shēng huó life; activity; to live; livelihood
发生 fā shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
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
生命 shēng mìng life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature; Classifiers: 个 ,条
生产 shēng chǎn to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
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