Chinese symbol for “livelihood”
生计
shēng jì
Traditional: 生計
livelihood
The closest CC-CEDICT match for livelihood is 生计 (shēng jì), defined as: livelihood.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “livelihood”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 生计.
| 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.) |
| 计划 (計劃) | jì huà | plan; project |
| 设计 (設計) | shè jì | to design; to plan; design; plan |
See also: Japanese symbol for “livelihood”.
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.