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男生

nán shēng

HSK 1 · word 262 of 3,000

Meaning

• schoolboy
• male student
• boy

Example sentence

Characters in 男生

• 男 nán (bound form) male
• 生 shēng to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born

Learned around the same time

• 奶 nǎi breast
• 奶奶 nǎi nai (informal) grandma (paternal grandmother)
• 男孩儿 nán hái r erhua form of 男孩[nan2 hai2]
• 男朋友 nán péng you boyfriend
• 男人 nán rén a man
• 南 nán south
• 南边 nán bian south
• 难 nán difficult (to...)
• 呢 ne (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?")
• 能 néng can
• 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])

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