Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.give birth to; bear; come into existence; born
他们生了两个孩子。
Two children were born to them.
她给他生了好几个孩子。
She has borne him several children.
他生在美国。
He was born in America.
- 2
n.grow; live; exist
这块地只生野草，不长庄稼。
No crops but grass can grow on this piece of land.
这种植物生在寒带。
This plant grows in frigid zone.
香蕉生在南方。
Bananas grow in the south.
- 3
n.intellectual; scholar; pupil; student
书生
scholar
儒生
Confucian scholar
医生
doctor
学生
student
- 4
v.cause; give rise to; happen
产生
cause
生病
get ill
发生
create
生效
take effect
- 5
n.(all) one's life; life time; means to maintain life; (means of) livelihood
轻生
commit suicide
丧生
lose one's life
生命
life
谋生
make a living
- 6
v.light (a fire)
生炉子
light a stove
生火
light a fire
生篝火
light a bonfire
- 7
adj.unfamiliar; unacquainted; strange
人生地不熟
a stranger in a strange place
刚到这里，工作很生。
I've only just come here. I'm still not familiar with the work.
这个小孩认生。
The child is shy with strangers.
- 8
adj.unripe; raw; uncooked; crude; unprocessed; unrefined; green
生肉
raw meat
这些桃子还是生的。
The peaches are not ripe yet.
- 9
adv.infmlstiff; mechanical
生凑
mechanically put together (disconnected words and phrases)
我们不能生搬别人的经验。
We cannot apply mechanically other people's experiences.
- 10
adv.(used before certain words indicating feeling or perception) very; much
我生怕她知道。
I am very much afraid that she knows it.
生疼
very painful
- 11
n.male role (one of the four main roles in traditional opera)
- 12
adv.infml(used as a suffix for certain adverbs, such as 好生 hǎoshēng and 怎生 zěnshēng) so; what
好生
carefully
怎生
how
Words and phrases with 生
- 生存[word]live
- 生产过程[word]production process
- 生病[word]be taken ill
- 生成[word]come into being; be born/gifted with
- 生产资料[word]means of production
- 生育[word]give birth to
- 生化[word]biochemistry
- 生物[word]living beings
- 生产者[word]producer
- 生儿育女[idiom]give birth to babies and bring them up
- 生龙活虎[idiom]full of vim and vigor
- 生生不息[idiom]multiply in an endless succession
- 生离死别[idiom]part forever
- 生老病死[idiom]birth, old age, sickness and death
- 生气勃勃[idiom]dynamic
- 生意兴隆[idiom]have plenty of briefs
- 生死存亡[idiom]life and death
- 生动活泼[idiom]be lively and invigorating