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Chinese symbol for “regeneration”

新生
xīn shēng
new; newborn; emerging; nascent

The closest CC-CEDICT match for regeneration is 新生 (xīn shēng), defined as: new; newborn; emerging; nascent; rebirth; regeneration.

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Characters and stroke order

新 xīn
new, recent, fresh, modern
radical 69 ⽄ · 13 strokes
生 shēng
life, lifetime; birth; growth
radical 100 ⽣ · 5 strokes

Other Chinese words for “regeneration”

WordPinyinMeaning
再生zài shēngto be reborn; to regenerate

Related words

Other words that share a character with 新生.

WordPinyinMeaning
新闻 (新聞)xīn wénnews; 条 (tiáo)
重新chóng xīnagain; once more; re-
创新 (創新)chuàng xīnto bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails; innovation
更新gēng xīnto replace the old with new; to renew
最新zuì xīnlatest; newest
新型xīn xíngnew type; new kind
发生 (發生)fā shēngto happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises")
生活shēng huóto live; life

See also: Japanese symbol for “regeneration”.

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.