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schoolgirl / female student / girl
HSK 1
doctor / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 1
teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male)
HSK 1
student / schoolchild
HSK 1
university student; college student
HSK 1
middle-school student / high school student
HSK 1
primary school student / schoolchild / CL: 個|个, / (fig.) beginner
HSK 1
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  *生* | 生* | *生
to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
HSK 2
exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam
HSK 2
to be born
HSK 2
student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
HSK 2
all one's life; throughout one's life
HSK 2
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
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
HSK 3
hygienic; sanitary / hygiene; sanitation
HSK 3
life (one's time on earth)
HSK 3
graduate student / postgraduate student / research student
HSK 4
graduate
HSK 4
to enroll new students / to get students
HSK 5
to be born
HSK 6
teachers and students
HSK 6
peanut / CL:
HSK 6
wild / undomesticated
HSK 6
to be reborn / to regenerate / to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) / recycling / regeneration
HSK 6
to maintain good health / to raise a child or animal / curing (of concrete etc)
HSK 7-9
new / newborn / emerging / nascent / rebirth / regeneration / new life / new student
HSK 7-9
nature / disposition / innate / natural
HSK 7-9
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
to give rise to / to derive / derivative / derivation
HSK 7-9
to flee for one's life
HSK 7-9
to seek one's livelihood / to work to support oneself / to earn a living
HSK 7-9
one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)
HSK 7-9
to die / to lose one's life
HSK 7-9
strange; unfamiliar
HSK 7-9
(adj.) twin
HSK 7-9
throughout one's life / lifetime; lifelong
HSK 7-9
stiff / rigid / inflexible / forcibly
to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom)
(Buddhism) to be reincarnated; (fig.) to be lenient; to spare sb / to have more children than allowed under family planning policy
bookkeeper (old)
original / primary / native / indigenous / proto- / stock (firmware)
to talk cheerfully and wittily / to joke together
to seek survival / to possess the will to live
lit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom) / fig. to narrowly escape death
orthopedic doctor
long life
symbiosis
to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery
this life
(medicine) hyperplasia / (abbr. for 增廣生員|增广生员) a scholar studying for the Ming dynasty imperial examinations who did not make the quota for support in the form of a monthly allowance of rice that students who made the quota received
see 老生
aquatic (plant, animal)
to be reborn / rebirth
twin (attributive) / twins
Epson, Japanese electronics company
to sketch from nature / to do a still life drawing
the remaining years of one's life / survival (after a disaster)
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
reincarnation (Buddhism)
people's livelihood / people's welfare
half a lifetime
to pressure a younger relative to hurry up and have a baby / (obstetrics) to induce labor / to expedite childbirth / (fig.) to be a driving force in bringing sth into existence
to save a life / life-saving
only (child); without siblings / to be the sole survivor
newborn / nascent / primary (biology)
to drift and live without purpose (idiom); to drag out an ignoble existence
annual (botany)
Edison (name) / Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor and businessman
growing as a thicket / overgrown / breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
next life
young generation / youth / young man
to produce (from sth else) / to derive (from raw material) / derivative
to engender one another
to be reborn / to recover / to come back to life / to regenerate
student of great ability
to design an artificial system, taking inspiration from a living organism; bionic; biomimetic
to live forever / eternal life / all one's life
candidate for the Imperial Examination proposed by a tributary state
to live in or on another organism as a parasite / to live by taking advantage of others / parasitism / parasitic
to burgeon / to produce / to conceive / to be in the initial stage
to take the life of a living creature
a suicide / to commit suicide
candidate who has not yet passed the county level imperial exam
all one's life
alternate leaf arrangement (botany)
scholar / intellectual / egghead
Hang Seng (the name of a bank in Hong Kong and of the stock market index the bank established)
mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape / to survive by the skin of one's teeth
to be so in pain as to not want to live / to be so grieved as to wish one were dead
(idiom) to come back to life (after death)
male military role in a Chinese opera
nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape / new lease of life
side issues keep arising (idiom)
(dialect) very; quite; properly; well; thoroughly
Confucian scholar (old)
shy
to celebrate a birthday
outstanding student / to give birth to healthy babies (typically involving prenatal screening and the abortion of offspring with a severe abnormality) / to enhance the genetic quality of a population; eugenics

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