生 — Chinese character
生
shēng
life, lifetime; birth; growth
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Radical
- 100 ⽣ (Life)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 一 土
- Formation
- ideographic — A shoot 屮 growing in the soil 土
- Japanese
- 生 as a kanji
Common words with 生
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 生产 (生產) | shēng chǎn | to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child |
| 产生 (產生) | chǎn shēng | to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate |
| 先生 | xiān sheng | teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) |
| 生命 | shēng mìng | life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (条 (tiáo)) |
| 医生 (醫生) | yī shēng | doctor; medical practitioner |
| 人生 | rén shēng | life (one's time on earth) |
| 生物 | shēng wù | organism; living creature; life form; (attributive) biological; bio- |
| 生态 (生態) | shēng tài | ecology (the study of interactions between organisms and their environment); ecological state (the condition or health of a natural environment) |
| 卫生 (衛生) | wèi shēng | hygienic; sanitary; hygiene; sanitation |
English words written with 生
生 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 38 · Analects 22 · Art of War 26 · I Ching 5 · Mencius 60 · Zhuangzi 297 · Great Learning 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 8
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 2
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 7
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 10
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 15
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 25
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 30
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 34
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 39
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