生
Meanings
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- 1.to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born
- 2.to arise; to occur
- 3.to light (a fire)
- 4.to live; to be alive
- 5.life
- 6.raw; uncooked; unprocessed
- 7.unfamiliar; strange
- 8.(bound form) student; person engaged in a field
- 9.(bound form) male role in traditional opera
- 10.(bound form) life; lifetime
- 11.(bound form) means of livelihood
- 12.(bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[shēng téng])
- 13.(bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[shēng lā yìng zhuài])
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Wiktionary
- 1.to live; to subsist; to exist
- 2.to grow; to develop; to bud
- 3.to bear; to give birth; to bring up; to rear
- 4.to be born; to come into existence
- 5.to lay (an egg)
- 6.pupil; disciple; student
- 7.scholar; Confucian scholar
- 8.actor or male character
- 9.having life; live
- 10.life; existence; being; living
- 11.fresh; not stale
- 12.unripe
- 13.raw; uncooked
- 14.unprocessed; unrefined; crude
- 15.uncultured; uncultivated; wild; uncivilized; savage
- 16.strange; unfamiliar; unacquainted
- 17.mechanically; forcedly
- 18.very; quite; extremely
- 19.vivid; strong; forceful
- 20.innate; natural; born with
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 屮 (“bud”) + 一 (“ground”) – sprouting from the ground. A conservative version is 𤯓, which is unrelated to 㞷 (匩 > 匡) and 𡴀 > 丰. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sreŋ (“to live; to be alive; to give birth; raw; green”). Cognate with Burmese ရှင် (hrang, “to live; alive”), Mizo hring (“to bear; to bring forth; to give birth to; green”). Schuessler (2007) proposes that Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sriŋ is derived from the root *sri (“to exist”) (whence possibly Chinese 體 (OC *r̥ʰiːʔ, “body; shape; form”)) + *-ŋ (terminative suffix). Both level tone and falling tone readings are found in Middle Chinese, but the latter has since been lost and is merged into the level-tone reading in modern dialects. Related to 青 (OC *sʰleːŋ, “blue-green”), 蒼 (OC *sʰaːŋ, *sʰaːŋʔ, “dark blue; deep green”). Derivatives: 性 (OC *sleŋs, “nature; character; personality; quality”), 姓 (OC *sleŋs, “family name”). Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese is *sraeng, but it comes from an earlier *srjaeng, as seen in Wang Renxu's edition of the Qieyun.
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Components
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Example sentences
你是學生。
You are a student.
您是學生。
You are a student.
我是學生。
I am a student.
事故發生。
Accidents happen.
我是學生。
I'm a student.
他很生氣。
He is in an angry mood.
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