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Chinese symbol for “symbiosis”

共生
gòng shēng
symbiosis

The closest CC-CEDICT match for symbiosis is 共生 (gòng shēng), defined as: symbiosis.

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Characters and stroke order

共 gòng
all, total; together; to share
radical 12 ⼋ · 6 strokes
生 shēng
life, lifetime; birth; growth
radical 100 ⽣ · 5 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 共生.

WordPinyinMeaning
共同gòng tóngcommon; joint
公共gōng gòngpublic; common; communal
共有gòng yǒuin total there are ...; to own jointly
共和国 (共和國)gòng hé guórepublic
共享gòng xiǎngto share; to enjoy together
共识 (共識)gòng shícommon understanding; consensus
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 “symbiosis”.

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.