Ideographic: A shoot 屮 growing in the soil 土Radical:

meaning for shēng:

  • - to be born
  • - to give birth
  • - life
  • - to grow
  • - raw
  • - uncooked
  • - studentlife
  • - activity
  • - to live
  • - livelihoodto happen
  • - to occur
  • - to take place
  • - to break outto 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
  • - to appear
  • - appearance
  • - emergence
  • - generation
  • - production
  • - yieldlife (as the characteristic of living beings)
  • - living being
  • - creature
  • - Classifiers: 个 ,条 to produce
  • - to manufacture
  • - to give birth to a child

xīhóngshì西红柿
kěyǐ可以
shēng
chī
kěyǐ可以
zhǔshóu煮熟
lái
chī

Tomatoes can be eaten raw or cooked.


zhèzhǒng这种
zhíwù植物
shǔyú属于
duōnián多年
shēng
zhíwù植物

This plant belongs to perennial plants.


zhe
jiùyào就要
fāyáng发扬
zuòyòng作用
zhè
jiùshì就是
shēng
de
mǎntáng满堂
xíngshì形式
huòmǔsī霍姆斯

To live is to function. That is all there is in living. (Holmes)


shēng
zài
yīgè一个
fùyù富裕
de
jiāozòng骄纵
de
jiātíng家庭

Come from a wealthy family that spoils you rotten.


jiǎ
shēng
yīnwèi因为
yǒu
sān
shì
tūzi秃子

Student A: Three of them were bald.