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HSK
birthday / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
to get angry; to be furious / vitality; liveliness
HSK 1
to fall ill
HSK 1
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  *生* | 生* | *生
to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
HSK 2
new word (in textbook) / word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied / CL: 組|组, 個|个
HSK 2
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
to exist / to survive
HSK 3
to produce; to manufacture / to give birth to a child
HSK 3
to grow / to grow up / to be brought up
HSK 3
business / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 3
(of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
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
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
lifeline
HSK 7-9
opportunity to live; hope of success / vigor; vitality
HSK 7-9
life or death
HSK 7-9
(of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative
HSK 7-9
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
to give birth to; to bear / fertility
HSK 7-9
career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life
HSK 7-9
to fear / afraid / extremely nervous / for fear that / to avoid / so as not to
HSK 7-9
(of a deceased) during one's life / while living
HSK 7-9
physiology
HSK 7-9
organism / living creature / life form / biological / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
stiff / harsh
HSK 7-9
life (a person's whole life) / in one's entire life
HSK 7-9
habitat
from birth / by one's nature
biochemistry
birthday card
to make a fire; to light a fire
auxin (plant growth hormone)
alkaloid
way of life / lifestyle
(Tw) student affairs (school office handling discipline and student counseling) (abbr. for 生活教育)
fertility
biological weapon
draft beer / unpasteurized beer
vocabulary words (in language-learning books) / new or unfamiliar words
(agr.) immature soil / virgin soil
eco-friendly
to emit light
knack of doing business / business sense
(environmental science) biochemical oxygen demand; BOD
to disgust / to pall / fed up / tedious / cloying / boring / irritating
pan-fried dumpling
biodiversity
fresh troops / (fig.) lifeblood / new force
to eat raw
ecotourism
one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支 / animal from the Chinese zodiac
to dazzle / to brighten up (a room etc)
biomechanics
bioreactor
fertility / ability to have children
birth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc)
production capability / productive force / productivity
life force / vitality
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
lettuce / raw fresh vegetables / greens
to return alive / to survive
gonad; reproductive gland
cream / whipped cream
assembly line / production line
shredded ginger
growth hormone
vitality
unripe / tart / not fully proficient / somewhat shaky
unprocessed medicinal herb
(of metal) to rust; to become rusty / (fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate
to take root
(Tw) ecosystem
fresh ginger
physiology
biological product
producer (of goods, commodities or farm produce etc) / manufacturer / (biology) autotroph
to be born with / to be gifted with
biochemistry
biologist
(TCM) to promote the secretion of saliva
biological father
production costs
thriving and prosperous business or trade
natural disposition
to reproduce / to flourish
manufacturing ability / production capacity
to seethe / to sulk / to be pissed off (vulgar)
productivity / efficiency of production
the critical moment / life and death crisis
lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom) / fig. vigorous and lively
to bring up (children) / to raise / to bear
full of life / exuberant
pig iron
biological clock
to emerge and grow / to develop
matter of life and death
unfamiliar / strange / out of practice / not accustomed

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