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生日

shēng rì

HSK 1 · word 328 of 3,000

Meaning

• birthday

Measure word

个 gè

Example sentence

Characters in 生日

• 生 shēng to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born
• 日 rì (bound form) sun

生 to be born plus 日 day. 日 is the written character for day and sun; the spoken word is 天, which is why it is 生日 but 今天.

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