生 shēng

1. 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)
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)
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. 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)
8. 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)
9. shēng verb to initiate; to become
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 生病 or 生气
10. 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)
11. 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)
12. 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)
13. 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)
14. 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)
15. 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)
16. 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)
17. shēng noun gender
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 男生 'male' or 女生 'female' (GHC '生' 16)
18. shēng verb to develop; to grow
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'shēng' v 2)
19. 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).
20. shēng noun a prostitute
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 妓女.
21. shēng noun a captive
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 俘虏.
22. shēng noun a gentleman
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 先生.
23. shēng noun Kangxi radical 100
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
    Notes: Born (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
24. shēng adjective unripe
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
    Notes: (ABC 'shēng' sv 2; Ci Yuan '生' 7)
25. shēng noun nature
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 本性 (Ci Yuan '生' 9; GHC '生' 14)
26. shēng verb to inherit; to succeed
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 继承 (Ci Yuan '生' 10)
27. shēng noun destiny
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 生命 (GHC '生' 4)

Contained in

• 卫生(衛生) hygiene ; to maintain good health
• 生石膏 gypsum CaSO4·2(H2O); plaster
• 出生缺陷 birth defect
• 底栖生物(底棲生物) benthos
• 别开生面(別開生面) to break new ground; to describe something old in a new way
• 舍生忘死(捨生忘死) bravery with no thought of personal safety; risking life and limb; undaunted by perils
• 认生(認生) shy with strangers
• 威德所生 all that majestic virtue gives rise to
• 长生术(長生術) the recipe for the elixir of life
• 生物圈 biosphere
• 抛生耦(拋生耦) to entice an inexperienced man
• 使生气(使生氣) to displease
• 卫生裤(衛生褲) long underwear pants
• 五行相生 the five elements give rise to one another
• 相生相克(相生相剋) giving rise to and then overcoming each other
• 生活方式 way of life; lifestyle ; lifestyle
• 分生组织(分生組織) meristem
• 胎生 viviparous
• 积习生常(積習生常) accumulated habits give rise to a new norm
• 好生 very; quite; properly; well; thoroughly
• 生物燃料 biofuel
• 生粉水 starch solution (cooking)
• 生辰 birthday
• 野生生物 wildlife; creatures in the wild; wild organism
• 生非作歹 to break the law and commit evil
• 夹生饭(夾生飯) half-cooked rice; half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance
• 生出 to give birth; to grow (whiskers etc); to generate; to produce
• 捐生 to sacrifice one's life
• 为生(為生) to make a living
• 人生路不熟 everything is unfamiliar
• 单细胞生物(單細胞生物) single-celled organism
• 生辰八字 astrological birth data
• 伴生气(伴生氣) associated gas (petrochemical engineering)
• 老生儿(老生兒) children of old and rich parents
• 半生潦倒 reckless waste of half my life
• 内生的(內生的) endogenous
• 写生(寫生) to sketch from nature; to do a still life drawing
• 真后生动物(真後生動物) eumetazoa; subkingdom of animals excluding sponges
• 初生 newborn; nascent; primary
• 寸草不生 not even a blade of grass grows; barren
• 生米熟饭(生米熟飯) the raw rice is now cooked; it is done and can't be changed
• 风水先生(風水先生) feng shui master; geomancer; stock figure in folk tales, as a wise adviser or a charlatan
• 生物专一性(生物專一性) biospecificity
• 接生婆 a midwife
• 生有枝指 born with extra toes or fingers
• 缠夹二先生(纏夾二先生) annoying muddle-headed person who gabbles unintelligibly

Also contained in

生员 、 博士生 、 语言产生 、 巴生 、 赛先生

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Truncated for common words

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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: 3
• 生公子 (生公子) 宋華子生公子雍 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2
• 生桓公 (生桓公) 生桓公而惠公薨 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 2