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Definition
- to be born
- to give birth
- to bear
- life
- phonetic component
- radical (Kang Xi 100)
- alive
- to generate
- to get
- to grow
- to light (a fire)
- raw
- uncooked
- very
- student
- pupil
Compounds (15)
nature; character; characteristic; property; quality; trait; attribute; sex (also suffix forming adjective from verb/suffix (designating a specific quality, property, scope, etc., close to -ness or -ity in English)
victory; success; to beat; to defeat; to surpass; victorious; superior to; to get the better of; better than; surpassing; superb (of vista); beautiful (scenery); wonderful (view); (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear; equal to (a task)
Related words (622)
fried bun; fried baozi; pan-fried bun (filled with meat and juices, a Shanghai specialty); pan-fried bun stuffed with pork; pan-fried baozi stuffed with pork
producer (of goods, commodities or farm produce etc); manufacturer; (biology) autotroph
svādhisthāna or svadhisthana, the navel or libido chakra 查克拉, residing in the genitals
consumer goods; means of livelihood; means of subsistence; documents relating to sb's life
(lit.) to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die; (fig.) the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch
life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations); Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle).; Life derives from physical exercise.
growing as a thicket; overgrown; breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
to arise; to emerge; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate; to appear; appearance; emergence; generation; production; yield
to be reborn; to regenerate; to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person); recycling; regeneration
growth (of organism); proliferation; supernumerary candidate (in imperial examation system)
half-cooked; (fig.) not completely done, solved, developed etc; Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5]
to live in or on another organism as a parasite; to live by taking advantage of others; parasitism; parasitic
to cheat strangers; to bully strangers; (of domesticated animals) to be rebellious with unfamiliar people
venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera)
examinee; test taker; candidate (for an entrance examination); student whose name has been put forward for an exam
to exceed the stipulated limit of a birth-control policy; to be reincarnated; to be lenient
sterilized absorbent cotton wool (used for dressings or cleansing wounds); sanitary napkin; tampon
half cooked rice; (fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance; Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5 fan4]
medical doctor; physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科医生
underripe; half-cooked; (fig.) not mastered (of a technique); clumsy; halting
surgeon; as opposed to physician 内科医生, who works primarily by administering drugs
principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
to be so in pain as to not want to live; to be so grieved as to wish one were dead
to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius); to choose honor over life; would rather sacrifice one's life than one's principles
place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孙子兵法); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger; (fig.) to find a way out of an impasse
Idioms (89)
born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate); born under an unlucky star; ahead of his time
to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed; It's too late to change anything now.
(lit.) there are principles behind making money (idiom); fig. to have a knack for good business; knowing how to accumulate wealth; good at feathering one's own nest
(lit.) the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed; It's too late to change anything now.; also written 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭
the rice is cooked; what's done is done; it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
(lit.) spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom); (fig.) to seethe with anger
the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom); (courteous language) it's my good fortune...
extreme joy turns to sorrow (idiom); Don't celebrate too soon, things could still go wrong!
human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water; brave; willing to risk life and limb
to start sth new or original (idiom); to break a new path; to break fresh ground
(lit.) to praise the dead and revile the living; (fig.) to live in the past (idiom)
(lit.) calamity in one's armpit (idiom); a major coup happening on one's doorstep; trouble or danger in one's own backyard
the young will be redoubtable in the years to come (idiom); youth are formidable; the younger generation will surpass us in time
a woman is born to leave her family (idiom); a woman's heart is with her husband
to emerge to meet a historic destiny (idiom); to arise at an opportune time; able to take advantage of an opportunity; to rise to the occasion
sacrificing one's life generously (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause
(lit.) view a text and interpret (idiom); to interpret word-by-word without understanding the meaning; a far-fetched interpretation
intimidate at the first glance (idiom); awe-inspiring; terrifying; overwhelming
mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape; to survive by the skin of one's teeth
the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment
arising involuntarily (idiom); spontaneous; to spring up unbidden (of emotion)
(lit.) pale-faced scholar (idiom); young and inexperienced person without practical experience; still wet behind the ears
to have never met sb before (idiom); entirely unacquainted; a complete stranger; not to know sb from Adam
to come back from death's door (idiom); unexpected rescue from danger; (fig.) to recover from a seemingly impossible situation; to find a way out of a predicament
(lit.) an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom); (fig.) birthing a son at an advanced age
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb; undaunted by perils
scene which recalls past memories (idiom); evocative of the past; reminiscent; to arouse deep feelings
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly; clinging abjectly to life; only interested in saving one's neck
as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence; in a drunken stupor
to live forever and never grow old (idiom); immortality; to be alive for evermore
(lit.) to feel the taste in one's mouth (idiom); (fig.) to water at the mouth; to drool in anticipation
(lit.) the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters; good and bad intermingled; It takes all sorts to make a world.
human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
(lit.) a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom); (fig.) the fearlessness of youth
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