生

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/生

Glyph origin
– sprouting from the ground.

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

proposes that 🇨🇬 is derived from the root (whence possibly Chinese ) +.

Both level tone and falling tone readings are found in Middle Chinese, but the latter has since been lost and is merged into the level-tone reading in modern dialects.

Related to,.

Derivatives:,.

Definitions

 * 1) to live; to subsist; to exist
 * 2) to grow; to develop; to bud
 * 3)  to bear; to give birth; to bring up; to rear
 * 4) to be born; to come into existence
 * 5)  to lay (an egg)
 * 6) pupil; disciple; student
 * 7)  scholar; Confucian scholar
 * 8)  actor or male character
 * 9) having life; live
 * 10) life; existence; being; living
 * 11) fresh; not stale
 * 12) unripe
 * 13) raw; uncooked
 * 14)  uncultured; uncultivated; wild; uncivilized; savage
 * 15) strange; unfamiliar
 * 16) mechanically; forcedly
 * 17) very; quite; extremely
 * 18) vivid; strong; forceful
 * 19) innate; natural; born with
 * 20) living things; organism
 * 21) livelihood; subsistence
 * 22) lifetime; all one's life
 * 23) birthday; anniversary
 * 24) to bring back to life; to revive; to rescue
 * 25) to generate; to breed; to create
 * 26) to manufacture; to produce
 * 27) to happen; to occur; to take place
 * 28) to catch (a disease)
 * 29)  to be infested by a parasite
 * 30)  to go into society; to be reincarnated
 * 31)  to set up; to put in; to settle
 * 32) to light; to ignite (a fire)
 * 1) mechanically; forcedly
 * 2) very; quite; extremely
 * 3) vivid; strong; forceful
 * 4) innate; natural; born with
 * 5) living things; organism
 * 6) livelihood; subsistence
 * 7) lifetime; all one's life
 * 8) birthday; anniversary
 * 9) to bring back to life; to revive; to rescue
 * 10) to generate; to breed; to create
 * 11) to manufacture; to produce
 * 12) to happen; to occur; to take place
 * 13) to catch (a disease)
 * 14)  to be infested by a parasite
 * 15)  to go into society; to be reincarnated
 * 16)  to set up; to put in; to settle
 * 17) to light; to ignite (a fire)
 * 1) to manufacture; to produce
 * 2) to happen; to occur; to take place
 * 3) to catch (a disease)
 * 4)  to be infested by a parasite
 * 5)  to go into society; to be reincarnated
 * 6)  to set up; to put in; to settle
 * 7) to light; to ignite (a fire)
 * 1)  to go into society; to be reincarnated
 * 2)  to set up; to put in; to settle
 * 3) to light; to ignite (a fire)
 * 1) to light; to ignite (a fire)

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology 3
.

Definitions

 * 1)  -san, when referring to a Japanese person

Etymology 1
From. Numerous derivatives already in use in the.

Noun

 * 1) a raw, uncooked

Prefix

 * 1)  live
 * 2) fresh, draft
 * 3) raw, uncooked, rare
 * 4) natural, unprocessed
 * 1) raw, uncooked, rare
 * 2) natural, unprocessed
 * 1) natural, unprocessed
 * 1) natural, unprocessed

Etymology 2
From. The reading, so likely a later borrowing from.

Noun

 * 1) a living
 * 2) life
 * 1) life

Pronoun

 * 1)  I or me, the first person singular (used by males)

Suffix

 * 1) a student
 * 2) (be) born in
 * 1) (be) born in

Etymology 3
Likely a contraction from.

Noun

 * 1) purity, a lack of any admixture, a state of being undiluted

Prefix

 * 1) unrefined
 * 2) pure, undefiled, unadulterated
 * 1) pure, undefiled, unadulterated

Etymology 4
From. The reading, so likely the initial borrowing from.

Affix

 * 1) life; lifetime

Etymology
From.

Compounds