生[shēng]

动

1. give birth to; bear

♦ ~孩子 give birth to a child

2. be born; come into existence

♦ 她~下来不多日子, 她妈就死了。 Her mother died soon after she was born.

3. grow

♦ ~芽 sprout

4. be afflicted with; get; have

♦ ~疖子 get boils

♦ ~冻疮 get chilblains

5. light (a fire)

♦ ~炉子 light a stove

名

1. life; living

♦ 谋生

2. pupil; student

♦ 留级~ a pupil who is repeating the year's work

3. intellectual; scholar

♦ 书生

4. male role (one of the four main roles in traditional opera)

5. noun suffix, used in names of occupations or stations of persons

♦ 医~ doctor

形

1. alive; living

♦ 生龙活虎

♦ 生擒

2. unripe; green

♦ ~的苹果 a green apple

♦ 这些桃子还是~的。 The peaches are not ripe yet.

3. raw; uncooked

♦ ~肉 raw meat

♦ 黄瓜可以~吃。 Cucumbers can be eaten raw.

4. unprocessed; unrefined; crude

♦ 生石膏

5. unfamiliar; unacquainted; strange

♦ 刚到这里, 工作还很~。 I've only just come here. I'm still not familiar with the work.

6. stiff; mechanical

♦ 生凑

副(used before certain words indicating feeling or perception) very; much

♦ ~疼 very painful