Chinese symbol for “inhabit”
生息
shēng xī
to inhabit; to live (in a habitat)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for inhabit is 生息 (shēng xī), defined as: to inhabit; to live (in a habitat).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “inhabit”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 栖居 (棲居) | qī jū | to inhabit; to live in (forests, mountains or wetlands etc) |
| 寓 | yù | (bound form) to reside; to inhabit; (bound form) residence; dwelling |
| 栖息 (棲息) | qī xī | (of a bird) to perch; (of creatures in general) to inhabit; to dwell |
| 居住于 (居住於) | jū zhù yú | to inhabit |
| 寓居 | yù jū | to make one's home in; to reside in |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 生息.
| 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.) |
| 信息 | xìn xī | information; news; message |
| 消息 | xiāo xi | (piece of) news; information; message |
See also: Japanese symbol for “inhabit”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.