生
shēng HSK1

life

生 shēng
life noun
life; lifetime; existence

她现在也明白了生与死。

tā xiàn​zài yě míng​bai le shēng yǔ sǐ.

She also now understands life and death.

to give rise to verb
to give rise to; to happen; to cause; to generate
student noun
student; pupil; learner; (bound form) scholar

我弟弟是这间大学的大三生。

wǒ dì​di shì zhè jiān dà​xué de dà​sān shēng.

My brother is a junior at this university.

to be born verb
to be born; to come into being

她天生为舞台而生。

tā tiān​shēng wèi wǔ​tái ér shēng.

She was born for the stage.

我是为你生的。

wǒ shì wèi nǐ shēng de.

I was born for you.

to live verb
to live; to exist; to survive

他为他们生，为他们死。

tā wèi tā​men shēng, wèi tā​men sǐ.

He lived for them and he died for them.

unfamiliar nounadjective
unfamiliar; strange; unacquainted
to give birth verb
to give birth to; to bear; to produce offspring

我无法生小孩。

wǒ wú​fǎ shēng xiǎo​hái.

I can't have children.

在日本生一个小孩要花多少钱呢？

zài rì​běn shēng yī​ge xiǎo​hái yào huā duō​shao qián ne?

How much does it cost to have a baby in Japan?

to grow verbnoun
to grow; to sprout; to spring up
raw adjective
raw; uncooked; unripe; (of fruit) green

这玉米是生的！

zhè yù​mǐ shì shēng de!

This corn is raw!

unprocessed adjectivenoun
(bound form) unprocessed; crude; unrefined
to light nounverb
to light (a fire); to kindle
stiffly verb
stiffly; mechanically; forcedly; by force
very
very; keenly; extremely; used before certain words expressing feelings or states
[male role]
male character type in traditional Chinese opera
surname
a Chinese surname
[classifier]
[classifier] for lifetimes; incarnations
[radical]
radical 100 in the list of 214 Chinese radicals

Cross-References

Referenced by

Frequency
Character
Written text
34th most common 3524.6 per million
Movie subtitles
48th most common 3474.0 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
173.4 per million appears in 46% of films
Written text
224.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+751F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)