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to arise; to come into being; to come about / to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
HSK 3
middle-school student / high school student
HSK 1
doctor / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 1
teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
to get angry; to be furious / vitality; liveliness
HSK 1
all one's life; throughout one's life
HSK 2
life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
university student; college student
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *生* | 生* | *生
to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
HSK 2
birthday / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male)
HSK 1
life (one's time on earth)
HSK 3
to produce; to manufacture / to give birth to a child
HSK 3
student / schoolchild
HSK 1
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
bathroom / toilet / WC / CL: 間|间
HSK 3
graduate
HSK 4
primary school student / schoolchild / CL: 個|个, / (fig.) beginner
HSK 1
hygienic; sanitary / hygiene; sanitation
HSK 3
to exist / to survive
HSK 3
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
HSK 3
to be born
HSK 2
schoolgirl / female student / girl
HSK 1
to fall ill
HSK 1
business / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 3
to be reborn / to regenerate / to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) / recycling / regeneration
HSK 6
new word (in textbook) / word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied / CL: 組|组, 個|个
HSK 2
student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
HSK 2
to generate; to produce; to form; to be formed; to come into being / to be born with; to be blessed with
HSK 5
(of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
HSK 3
to enroll new students / to get students
HSK 5
exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam
HSK 2
to do business
HSK 7-9
to die / to lose one's life
HSK 7-9
teachers and students
HSK 6
to grow / to grow up / to be brought up
HSK 3
graduate student / postgraduate student / research student
HSK 4
(neologism) the three core personal values: worldview (世界觀|世界观), view of life (人生觀|人生观) and value system (價值觀|价值观)
(dated, except in Taiwan) trainee; apprentice; probationary employee / (entertainment) trainee performer undergoing systematic training prior to debut (esp. in idol groups)
to eat raw
organism / living creature / life form / biological / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
gross domestic product (GDP)
peanut / CL:
HSK 6
wild / undomesticated
HSK 6
one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *维* | 维* | *维
to preserve / to maintain / to hold together / dimension / vitamin (abbr. for 維生素|维生素)
a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
(idiom) a chance of survival; a fighting chance; a ray of hope
World Health Organization (WHO)
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)
lit. dragon births dragon, phoenix births phoenix (idiom) / fig. the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
(of energy, natural resources etc) renewable
pampered and spoiled since childhood
college entrance exam (especially as abbr. for 普通高等學校招生全國統一考試|普通高等学校招生全国统一考试) / (Tw) entrance exam for senior government service posts (abbr. for 公務人員高等考試|公务人员高等考试)
HSK 6
birth rate
handsome but effeminate man / pretty boy
strange; unfamiliar
HSK 7-9
ophthalmologist; eye doctor
menstrual leave (Tw)
World Health Organization (WHO) (abbr. for 世界衛生組織|世界卫生组织)
microorganism
life sciences
to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter (idiom)
Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life
HSK 7-9
(Tw) life skills education; education in practical, emotional, social and moral aspects of daily living
twin brothers
physiology
HSK 7-9
life is but a dream (idiom)
biopolymers
domestic animal / brute / bastard
peanut butter
excrescence / abnormal superfluous growth
renewable energy source
first half of one's life
original / primary / native / indigenous / proto- / stock (firmware)
cell biology
public health (abbr. for 公共衛生|公共卫生)
growing as a thicket / overgrown / breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
medical doctor; physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科醫生|外科医生
sex life
to have sexual relations with sb / to have dealings with
(idiom) (of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous
HSK 7-9
(adj.) twin
HSK 7-9
Mesozoic (geological era 250-65m years ago, covering Triassic 三疊紀|三叠纪, Jurassic 侏羅紀|侏罗纪 and Cretaceous 白堊紀|白垩纪)
Johnson & Johnson
habitat; living environment
(mythology) to conceive or give birth by non-sexual or divine means / (physics) induced (magnetic field, current etc)
sanitary towel
unfamiliar at first but you get used to it / strangers are first meeting, but soon friends / an acquired taste
ecology (the study of interactions between organisms and their environment) / ecological state (the condition or health of a natural environment) / (fig.) ecosystem (a complex network, e.g. in tech, business or media, as in 數字生態|数字生态 "digital ecosystem")
HSK 7-9
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils
antibiotic
HSK 7-9
biologist
natural child
China Evergrande Group, or simply Evergrande, Chinese property developer founded in 1996 (abbr. for 恒大集團|恒大集团) / Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) (abbr. for 香港恒生大學|香港恒生大学)

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