生
Meaning
- to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born
- to arise; to occur
- to light (a fire)
Example sentence
熟能生巧。
Practice makes perfect.
The character 生
生 draws a shoot pushing out of the ground. To be born and to grow — 生日, 出生, 生病 — and then raw or unfamiliar: 生词 a word you have not met, 生人 a stranger. A 学生 grows by learning.
Words containing 生
- 大学生 dà xué shēng university student; college student
- 男生 nán shēng schoolboy
- 女生 nǚ shēng schoolgirl
- 生病 shēng bìng to fall ill
- 生气 shēng qì to get angry; to be furious
- 生日 shēng rì birthday
- 先生 xiān sheng teacher
- 小学生 xiǎo xué shēng primary school student
- 学生 xué sheng student
- 医生 yī shēng doctor; medical practitioner
- 中学生 zhōng xué shēng middle-school student
- 出生 chū shēng to be born
- 考生 kǎo shēng exam candidate
- 留学生 liú xué shēng student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
- 生词 shēng cí new word (in textbook)
- 生活 shēng huó to live
- 一生 yī shēng all one's life; throughout one's life
- 产生 chǎn shēng to arise; to come into being; to come about
- 发生 fā shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- 人生 rén shēng life (one's time on earth)
- 生产 shēng chǎn to produce; to manufacture
- 生存 shēng cún to exist
- 生动 shēng dòng (of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
- 生命 shēng mìng life (as the characteristic of living beings)