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  *生* | 生* | *生
to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽)
HSK 2
born of the same parents / sibling / fellow citizen / compatriot
HSK 6
to be born
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
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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
(of a bird, insect etc) to hatch / (slang) (fig.) to be born / to crack open (an egg, a nut etc)
people born between 1995-01-01 and 1999-12-31 / Gen Z (abbr. for 95後|95 + 00後|00)
to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin
HSK 7-9
elder brother born to the same parents
younger sister born to the same parents
elder sister born to the same parents
younger brother born to the same parents
(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
to be born
HSK 6
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born theoretical physicist
to go down to the fields / to get up from bed / to leave one's sickbed / to be born
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor and politician
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
Wakin Chau (1960-), HK-born Taiwanese singer and actor
lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom) / fig. the fearlessness of youth
Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese-trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration
(lit.) to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / (fig.) the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
(idiom) the courage born of stirred emotions
devils are born in the heart (idiom) / fears originate in the mind
Murasaki Shikibu (born c. 973), Japanese writer, author of "The Tale of Genji"
The Gallant Maid, novel by Manchu-born Qing dynasty writer 文康
to be born / to come into being / to withdraw from worldly affairs
(idiom) to be naturally beautiful; to be born beautiful
John von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungarian-born American mathematician and polymath
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), German-born British composer
born of a concubine (rather than of the wife)
(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
(idiom) (of a baby) to enter the world with a loud cry; to be born
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
to be born under an ill star
Joan Chen (1961–), Chinese-born American actress and film director
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.
(coll.) new-born baby / young boy
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)
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)
a woman is born to leave her family (idiom) / a woman's heart is with her husband
stranger / living person / to give birth / to be born (in a certain time or place)
immortal body (of born again Daoist)
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
children born to parents from rural areas who have migrated to urban areas
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  *孽* | 孽* | *孽
son born of a concubine / disaster / sin / evil
Vanessa-Mae (1978–), Singaporean-born British violinist and skier
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  *聩* | 聩* | *聩
born deaf / deaf / obtuse
lit. Rushing Clan, generation born between 1975-1985 and China's most hedonistic and hard-working social group (netspeak)
to be reincarnated in the wrong womb / (fig.) to be born into unfortunate circumstances (impoverished family, domestic violence etc)
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
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
newly born
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)
Daniel C. Tsui (1939-), Chinese-born American physicist, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
lit. to descend to earth (of an immortal) / to be born
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  *胞* | 胞* | *胞
placenta / womb / born of the same parents
Fermi (name) / Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
born of the wife (i.e. not of a concubine)
high-born / noble / aristocratic / conceited
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky
son born of a concubine
born out of wedlock / illegitimate
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)
Wen Kang (mid-19th century), Manchu-born novelist, author of The Gallant Maid 兒女英雄傳|儿女英雄传
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)
to be born with / to be gifted with
Christine Fan (1976-), American-born Taiwanese singer and actress
(Tw) Handel (name) / George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German-born British composer
Stein (name) / Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), Hungarian-born British archaeologist known for his expeditions to Central Asia
to die / future incarnation / next life / to be born / to come into the world / future generation
lit. born in the morning and dying at dusk (idiom) / fig. ephemeral / transient
Yuan T. Lee (1936-), Taiwanese-born Chemist and Nobel Prize winner in 1986
Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator
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  *贕* | 贕* | *贕
still-born chick (in unhatched egg) / variant of 殰|㱩


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