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生存

shēng cún

HSK 3 · word 1857 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

没有水,我们无法生存。

méi yǒu shuǐ wǒ men wú fǎ shēng cún

Without water, we cannot exist.

Characters in 生存

to live plus , to exist. gives 存在 and 保存, always a keeping-in-being; the word means survival rather than living well.

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