生 shēng
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shēng
verb
to be born; to give birth
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature
Notes: In the sense of 出生 or 生育, an intransitive verb (Kroll 2015 '生' 2; ABC 'shēng' v 1; Ci Yuan '生' 2) -
shēng
verb
to live
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A verb in literary Chinese and a bound morpheme in modern Chinese in the sense of 生活 (Kroll 2015 '生' 1; ABC 'shēng' sv 1; Ci Yuan '生' 3; GHC '生' 5) -
shēng
adjective
raw
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
Notes: In the sense of 生的 (Kroll 2015 '生' 3; ABC 'shēng' sv 3; Ci Yuan '生' 7; GHC '生' 6) -
shēng
noun
a student
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A bound form in modern Chinese, as in 学生 (Kroll 2015 '生' 5; ABC 'shēng' bf 3; GHC '生' 9) -
shēng
noun
life
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A bound form in modern Chinese, as in 生活 (Kroll 2015 '生' 1b; ABC 'shēng' bf 1; Ci Yuan '生' 4, 5) -
shēng
verb
to produce; to give rise
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 生产 (Kroll 2015 '生' 2a; ABC 'shēng' v 3; GHC '生' 1). For example, 天生德於予 'Heaven produced the virtue that is in me.' (Lunyu 7:22) -
shēng
adjective
alive
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 活的 (Kroll 2015 '生' 1; ABC 'shēng' sv 1; Ci Yuan '生' 3; GHC '生' 3) -
shēng
adjective
a lifetime
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 一生or 一辈子 (Kroll 2015 '生' 1b; Ci Yuan '生' 6) -
shēng
verb
to initiate; to become
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 生病 or 生气 -
shēng
verb
to grow
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 生长 (Ci Yuan '生' 1; ABC 'shēng' v 2; GHC '生' 1) -
shēng
adjective
unfamiliar
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 生疏, as in new vocabulary 生词 (Kroll 2015 '生'' 3a; Ci Yuan '生' 7; GHC '生' 7) -
shēng
adjective
not experienced
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in a new hand 生手 (Kroll 2015 '生'' 3a; GHC '生' 6) -
shēng
adjective
hard; stiff; strong
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 硬 (ABC 'shēng' sv 6; GHC '生' 12) -
shēng
adverb
very; extremely
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 什 or 甚 (ABC 'shēng' adv; Ci Yuan '生' 13; GHC '生' 11) -
shēng
noun
having academic or professional knowledge
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 医生 'doctor', often used in this sense as a courtesy title for a scholar (Kroll 2015 '生' 5; Ci Yuan '生' 11; GHC '生' 8) -
shēng
noun
a male role in traditional theatre
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Drama
Notes: As in 小生 'young boy' or 老生 'old man' (ABC 'shēng' bf 4; Ci Yuan '生' 12; GHC '生' 10) -
shēng
noun
gender
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 男生 'male' or 女生 'female' (GHC '生' 16) -
shēng
verb
to develop; to grow
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'shēng' v 2) -
shēng
verb
to set up
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 安装 (ABC 'shēng' v 4). -
shēng
noun
a prostitute
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 妓女. -
shēng
noun
a captive
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 俘虏. -
shēng
noun
a gentleman
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 先生. -
shēng
noun
Kangxi radical 100
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: Born (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
shēng
adjective
unripe
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
Notes: (ABC 'shēng' sv 2; Ci Yuan '生' 7) -
shēng
noun
nature
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 本性 (Ci Yuan '生' 9; GHC '生' 14) -
shēng
verb
to inherit; to succeed
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 继承 (Ci Yuan '生' 10) -
shēng
noun
destiny
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 生命 (GHC '生' 4)
Contained in
- 单细胞生物(單細胞生物) single-celled organism
- 值日生 student on duty; prefect
- 借腹生子 surrogate pregnancy
- 农业生技(農業生技) agri-biotechnology
- 账房先生(賬房先生) bookkeeper
- 生物多元化 biodiversity
- 生龙活虎(生龍活虎) lively dragon and animated tiger; vigorous and lively
- 卫生巾(衛生巾) sanitary towel
- 生命不息,战斗不止(生命不息,戰鬥不止) while there is life, the fight continues; to fight to the last
- 原生橄榄油(原生橄欖油) virgin olive oil
- 生耗氧量 biological oxygen demand (BOD)
- 妙趣横生(妙趣橫生) endlessly interesting; very witty
- 栩栩如生 vivid and lifelike
- 生命延续(生命延續) life extension
- 救生队(救生隊) rescue team; CL:支[zhi1]
- 生殖力 fertility
- 生物性 biological
- 见习生(見習生) apprentice; probationer; cadet
- 生产自救(生產自救) self-help
- 千生万死(千生萬死) a thousand lives and ten thousand deaths; very dangerous
- 生病造热(生病造熱) it brings fever to his body
- 重水生产(重水生產) heavy water production
- 生杀(生殺) to bring life and death
- 鬼由心生 devils are born in the heart; fears originate in the mind
- 维生(維生) to subsist /to eke out a living; to keep body and soul together
- 生分 estranged
- 长生不死(長生不死) immortality
- 七窍生烟(七竅生煙) spouting smoke through the seven orifices; to seethe with anger
- 生活垃圾 domestic garbage
- 救生圈 life buoy; life belt; (jocularly) flab; spare tire
- 使生气(使生氣) to displease
- 发生关系(發生關係) to have sexual relations with somebody; to have dealings with
- 微生物 microorganism
- 生产关系(生產關係) relations between levels of production; socio-economic relations
- 养生之道(養生之道) the way of maintaining good health
- 苟且偷生 to drift and live without purpose; to drag out an ignoble existence
- 生物碱(生物鹼) alkaloid
- 再生产(再生產) to reproduce
- 萌生 to burgeon; to produce; to conceive; to be in the initial stage
- 白面书生(白面書生) pale-faced scholar; young and inexperienced person without practical experience
- 生意兴隆(生意興隆) thriving and prosperous business or trade
- 同生共死 to live and die together; a deep friendship
- 百弊丛生(百弊叢生) All the ill effects appear.
- 再生不良性贫血(再生不良性貧血) aplastic anemia
- 寤生 to be born breached
Also contained in
三江生态旅游区 、 但尼生 、 麻生太郎 、 弥生时代 、 生灵 、 女生
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- 卷二十九 志第十九 符瑞下 Volume 29 Treatises 19: Auspicious Signs 3 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 177
- 卷六十三 志第十六 五行二上 Volume 63 Treatises 16: Five Elements 2a History of Song 宋史 — count: 156
- 卷七十三下 表第十三下 宰相世系三下 Volume 73b Tables 18: Chancellors Genealogy 3b New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 151
- 卷七十五下 表第十五下 宰相世系五下 Volume 75b Tables 22: Chancellors Genealogy 5b New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 128
- 卷七十二下 表第十二下 宰相世系二下 Volume 72c Tables 16: Chancellors Genealogy 2c New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 112
- 卷七十二上 表第十二上 宰相世系二上 Volume 72a Tables 14: Chancellors Genealogy 2a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 111
- 卷四 墜形訓 Chapter 4: Terrestrial Forms Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 107
- 卷七十一下 表第十一下 宰相世系一下 Volume 71b Tables 13: Chancellors Genealogy 1b New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 106
- 卷十六 志第六 律曆上 Volume 16 Treatises 6: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 102
- 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 96
Collocations
- 彭生 (彭生) 使公子彭生乘公 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 7
- 归生 (歸生) 歸生奚齊 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 7
- 葛生 (葛生) 葛生 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧唐‧葛生 Lessons from the states - Odes of Tang - Ge Sheng — count: 5
- 姬生 (姬生) 大戎狐姬生重耳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 5
- 申生 (申生) 生秦穆夫人及大子申生 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 5
- 子生 (子生) 仲子生而有文在其手 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 4
- 生之后 (生之後) 我生之後 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧王‧兔爰 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wang - Tu Yuan — count: 3
- 厚生 (厚生) 厚生 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 大禹謨 Yu Shu - Counsels of the Great Yu — count: 3
- 生厉 (生厲) 誰生厲階 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧桑柔 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Sang Rou — count: 2
- 生卓 (生卓) 其娣生卓子 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 2