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HSK
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  *生* | 生* | *生
to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
HSK 2
to be born
HSK 2
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  *属* | 属* | *属
category / genus (taxonomy) / family members / dependents / to belong to / subordinate to / affiliated with / be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals) / to be / to prove to be / to constitute
HSK 3
to generate; to produce; to form; to be formed; to come into being / to be born with; to be blessed with
HSK 5
to be born
HSK 6
born of the same parents / sibling / fellow citizen / compatriot
HSK 6
to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin
HSK 7-9
to fall to the ground / to be set on the ground / to reach to the ground / to be born / (of a plane) to land
HSK 7-9
(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
son born of a concubine
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
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  *胞* | 胞* | *胞
placenta / womb / born of the same parents
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  *聩* | 聩* | *聩
born deaf / deaf / obtuse
stranger / living person / to give birth / to be born (in a certain time or place)
(Tw) Handel (name) / George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German-born British composer
Wakin Chau (1960-), HK-born Taiwanese singer and actor
The Gallant Maid, novel by Manchu-born Qing dynasty writer 文康
to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist / to turn over a new leaf / fig. to change wholly / to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
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  *孽* | 孽* | *孽
son born of a concubine / disaster / sin / evil
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born theoretical physicist
to be born / (fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc) / (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn) / bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)
to be born under an ill star
to be born / to come into being / to withdraw from worldly affairs
lit. born in the morning and dying at dusk (idiom) / fig. ephemeral / transient
born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate) / born under an unlucky star / ahead of his time
to be born / arrival of newborn / birth (of a savior or religious leader)
to take to the woods to become an outlaw / (dialect) to be born (Etymology: in former times, a bed of straw or grass was used as padding during childbirth)
born of a concubine (rather than of the wife)
(idiom) (of a baby) to enter the world with a loud cry; to be born
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky
to die / future incarnation / next life / to be born / to come into the world / future generation
to go down to the fields / to get up from bed / to leave one's sickbed / to be born
Fermi (name) / Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
Joan Chen (1961–), Chinese-born American actress and film director
to be born with a weak constitution and suffer from ill health during one's life / (fig.) to be problematic from the start, and get even worse over time
Vanessa-Mae (1978–), Singaporean-born British violinist and skier
lit. to descend to earth (of an immortal) / to be born
high-born / noble / aristocratic / conceited
Wen Kang (mid-19th century), Manchu-born novelist, author of The Gallant Maid 兒女英雄傳|儿女英雄传
Murasaki Shikibu (born c. 973), Japanese writer, author of "The Tale of Genji"
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  *贕* | 贕* | *贕
still-born chick (in unhatched egg) / variant of 殰|㱩
Neumann (surname) / John von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungarian-born American mathematician and polymath
immortal body (of born again Daoist)
Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator
to be reincarnated in the wrong womb / (fig.) to be born into unfortunate circumstances (impoverished family, domestic violence etc)
Wu Zixu (–484 BC), Chu-born strategist for Wu. After the King of Chu executed his family, he fled to Wu and masterminded Wu's invasion of Chu (506 BC), destroying its capital in a campaign that doubled as personal vengeance.
born of the wife (i.e. not of a concubine)
Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese-trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration
people born between 1995-01-01 and 1999-12-31 / Gen Z (abbr. for 95後|95 + 00後|00)
Stein (name) / Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), Hungarian-born British archaeologist known for his expeditions to Central Asia
lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom) / fig. the fearlessness of youth
to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist / to turn over a new leaf / fig. to change wholly
(idiom) to be naturally beautiful; to be born beautiful
born out of wedlock / illegitimate
lit. Rushing Clan, generation born between 1975-1985 and China's most hedonistic and hard-working social group (netspeak)
newly born
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor and politician
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
to be born with / to be gifted with
Knowledge is not innate to man, how can we overcome doubt? / We are not born with knowledge, how does one achieve maturity? (i.e. without guidance from a teacher - Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈)
Christine Fan (1976-), American-born Taiwanese singer and actress
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), German-born British composer
(name) Gutenberg / Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400–1468), inventor in Europe of the printing press / Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960), German-born US seismologist, coinventor of the Richter magnitude scale
children born to parents from rural areas who have migrated to urban areas
a woman is born to leave her family (idiom) / a woman's heart is with her husband
(coll.) new-born baby / young boy
Daniel C. Tsui (1939-), Chinese-born American physicist, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
Yuan T. Lee (1936-), Taiwanese-born Chemist and Nobel Prize winner in 1986
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
(idiom) the courage born of stirred emotions
devils are born in the heart (idiom) / fears originate in the mind


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