shēng sheng

life, living, lifetime; birth

DEFINITIONS

生 shēng
  • to be born
  • to give birth
  • life
  • to grow
  • raw
  • uncooked
  • student

STROKES

WORDS

tāi shēng viviparity; zoogony
球 wèi shēng qiú mothball
rèn shēng shy with strangers
cháng shēng long life
yǎng shēng to maintain good health; to raise a child or animal; curing (of concrete etc)
高才 gāo cái shēng student of great ability; talented student
物 gǔ shēng wù paleo-organism
得意门 dé yì mén shēng favorite pupil
物学 wēi shēng wù xué microbiology
pà shēng fear of strangers; to be afraid of strangers (of small children)
急中智 jí zhōng shēng zhì quick witted in an emergency; able to react resourcefully
物战 shēng wù zhàn germ warfare; biological warfare
率 fā shēng lǜ rate of occurrence
kǎo shēng exam candidate; student whose name has been put forward for an exam
物 yǎn shēng wù a derivative (complex product derived from simpler source material)
见习 jiàn xí shēng apprentice; probationer; cadet
质 yuán shēng zhì protoplasm
物学 gǔ shēng wù xué palaeontology
本科 běn kē shēng undergraduate student
乐极悲 lè jí shēng bēi extreme joy turns to sorrow (idiom); Don't celebrate too soon, things could still go wrong!
民不聊 mín bù liáo shēng The people have no way to make a living (idiom, from Record of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4]); no way of getting by
子女 dú shēng zǐ nǚ an only child
啤酒 shēng pí jiǔ draft beer; unpasteurized beer
拉硬拽 shēng lā yìng zhuài to drag sb along against his will; to draw a forced analogy
产能力 shēng chǎn néng lì manufacturing ability; production capacity