shēng
生 (shēng) is a Chinese word meaning “to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)”.
Meanings
- 1to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born
- 2to arise; to occur
- 3to light (a fire)
- 4to live; to be alive
- 5life
- 6raw; uncooked; unprocessed
- 7unfamiliar; strange
- 8(bound form) student; person engaged in a field
- 9(bound form) male role in traditional opera
- 10(bound form) life; lifetime
- 11(bound form) means of livelihood
- 12(bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2])
- 13(bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- Part of speech
- adjective