| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 生 | 生 | shēng | - to be born - to give birth - life - to grow - raw - uncooked - student |
| 一生 | 一生 | yīshēng | - all one's life - throughout one's life |
| 互生 | 互生 | hùshēng | - alternate phyllotaxy (leaf pattern) |
| 人生 | 人生 | rénshēng | - life (one's time on earth) |
| 今生 | 今生 | jīnshēng | - this life |
| 来生 | 來生 | láishēng | - next life |
| 偷生 | 偷生 | tōushēng | - to live without purpose |
| 催生 | 催生 | cuīshēng | - to induce labor - to expedite childbirth |
| 儒生 | 儒生 | rúshēng | - Confucian scholar (old) |
| 先生 | 先生 | Xiānsheng | - Mister (Mr.) |
| 先生 | 先生 | xiānsheng | - teacher - husband - doctor (dialect) - CL:位[wei4] |
| 共生 | 共生 | gòngshēng | - symbiosis |
| 再生 | 再生 | zàishēng | - to be reborn - to regenerate - to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) - recycling - regeneration |
| 出生 | 出生 | chūshēng | - to be born |
| 初生 | 初生 | chūshēng | - newborn - nascent - primary (biology) |
| 前生 | 前生 | qiánshēng | - pre-existence |
| 半生 | 半生 | bànshēng | - half a lifetime |
| 原生 | 原生 | yuánshēng | - original - primary - native - indigenous - proto- - stock (firmware) |
| 丛生 | 叢生 | cóngshēng | - growing as a thicket - overgrown - breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc) |
| 丧生 | 喪生 | sàngshēng | - to die - to lose one's life |
| 增生 | 增生 | zēngshēng | - growth (of organism) - proliferation - supernumerary candidate (in imperial examation system) |
| 天生 | 天生 | tiānshēng | - nature - disposition - innate - natural |
| 夹生 | 夾生 | jiāshēng | - half-cooked - (fig.) not completely done, solved, developed etc - Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5] |
| 女生 | 女生 | nǚshēng | - schoolgirl - female student - girl |
| 孳生 | 孳生 | zīshēng | - to multiply - to breed |
| 学生 | 學生 | xuésheng | - student - schoolchild |
| 孪生 | 孿生 | luánshēng | - twin |
| 安生 | 安生 | ānshēng | - peaceful - restful - quiet - still |
| 寄生 | 寄生 | jìshēng | - to live in or on another organism as a parasite - to live by taking advantage of others - parasitism - parasitic |
| 写生 | 寫生 | xiěshēng | - to sketch from nature - to do a still life drawing |
| 对生 | 對生 | duìshēng | - opposite (botany) |
| 尾生 | 尾生 | WěiShēng | - Wei Sheng (legendary character who waited for his love under a bridge until he was drowned in the surging waters) - sb who keeps to their word no matter what |
| 差生 | 差生 | chàshēng | - weak student |
| 巴生 | 巴生 | Bāshēng | - Klang (city in Malaysia) |
| 师生 | 師生 | shīshēng | - teachers and students |
| 平生 | 平生 | píngshēng | - all one's life |
| 康生 | 康生 | KāngShēng | - Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses |
| 强生 | 強生 | Qiángshēng | - Johnson (surname) - Johnson & Johnson (company) |
| 往生 | 往生 | wǎngshēng | - to be reborn - to live in paradise (Buddhism) - to die - (after) one's death |
| 后生 | 後生 | hòushēng | - young generation - youth - young man |
| 复生 | 復生 | fùshēng | - to be reborn - to recover - to come back to life - to regenerate |
| 怎生 | 怎生 | zěnshēng | - how - why |
| 怕生 | 怕生 | pàshēng | - fear of strangers - to be afraid of strangers (of small children) |
| 怯生 | 怯生 | qièshēng | - shy |
| 恒生 | 恆生 | HéngShēng | - Hang Seng (name) |
| 庆生 | 慶生 | qìngshēng | - to celebrate a birthday |
| 所生 | 所生 | suǒshēng | - parents (father and mother) |
| 投生 | 投生 | tóushēng | - reborn (of departed spirit) - to be reincarnated - to leave home for a new life |
| 招生 | 招生 | zhāoshēng | - to enroll new students - to get students |
| 捐生 | 捐生 | juānshēng | - to sacrifice one's life |
| 接生 | 接生 | jiēshēng | - to deliver (a newborn child) |
| 救生 | 救生 | jiùshēng | - to save a life - life-saving |
| 新生 | 新生 | xīnshēng | - new - newborn - emerging - nascent - rebirth - regeneration - new life - new student |
| 晚生 | 晚生 | wǎnshēng | - I (self-deprecatory, in front of elders) (old) |
| 更生 | 更生 | gēngshēng | - resurrection - rebirth - reinvigorated - rejuvenated - a new lease of life |
| 书生 | 書生 | shūshēng | - scholar - intellectual - egghead |
| 横生 | 橫生 | héngshēng | - to grow without restraint - overflowing with - to happen unexpectedly |
| 次生 | 次生 | cìshēng | - derivative - secondary - sub- |
| 欺生 | 欺生 | qīshēng | - to cheat strangers - to bully strangers - (of domesticated animals) to be rebellious with unfamiliar people |
| 正生 | 正生 | zhèngshēng | - starring male role in a Chinese opera |
| 武生 | 武生 | wǔshēng | - male military role in a Chinese opera |
| 死生 | 死生 | sǐshēng | - life or death - critical (event) |
| 杀生 | 殺生 | shāshēng | - kill (life) |
| 民生 | 民生 | mínshēng | - people's livelihood - people's welfare |
| 水生 | 水生 | shuǐshēng | - aquatic (plant, animal) |
| 永生 | 永生 | yǒngshēng | - to live forever - eternal life - all one's life |
| 求生 | 求生 | qiúshēng | - to seek survival - to possess the will to live |
| 派生 | 派生 | pàishēng | - to produce (from sth else) - to derive (from raw material) - derivative |
| 滋生 | 滋生 | zīshēng | - to breed - to flourish - to cause - to provoke - to create |
| 为生 | 為生 | wéishēng | - to make a living |
| 营生 | 營生 | yíngshēng | - to earn a living - a livelihood |
| 独生 | 獨生 | dúshēng | - only (child) - to be the sole survivor |
| 生下 | 生下 | shēngxià | - to give birth to |
| 生人 | 生人 | shēngrén | - stranger - living person - to give birth - to be born (in a certain time or place) |
| 生来 | 生來 | shēnglái | - from birth - by one's nature |
| 生僻 | 生僻 | shēngpì | - unfamiliar - rarely seen |
| 生光 | 生光 | shēngguāng | - to emit light |
| 生冷 | 生冷 | shēnglěng | - uncooked or cold food |
| 生出 | 生出 | shēngchū | - to give birth - to grow (whiskers etc) - to generate - to produce |
| 生前 | 生前 | shēngqián | - (of a deceased) during one's life - while living |
| 生动 | 生動 | shēngdòng | - vivid - lively |
| 生化 | 生化 | shēnghuà | - biochemistry |
| 生厌 | 生厭 | shēngyàn | - to disgust - to pall - fed up - tedious - cloying - boring - irritating |
| 生命 | 生命 | shēngmìng | - life - living - biological - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 生员 | 生員 | shēngyuán | - scholar preparing for imperial examinations (in former times) |
| 生啤 | 生啤 | shēngpí | - draft beer - unpasteurized beer |
| 生土 | 生土 | shēngtǔ | - (agr.) immature soil - virgin soil |
| 生境 | 生境 | shēngjìng | - habitat |
| 生子 | 生子 | shēngzǐ | - to give birth to a child or children |
| 生字 | 生字 | shēngzì | - new character (in textbook) - character that is unfamiliar or not yet studied |
| 生存 | 生存 | shēngcún | - to exist - to survive |
| 生就 | 生就 | shēngjiù | - to be born with - to be gifted with |
| 生平 | 生平 | shēngpíng | - life (a person's whole life) - in one's entire life |
| 生怕 | 生怕 | shēngpà | - to fear - afraid - extremely nervous - for fear that - to avoid - so as not to |
| 生性 | 生性 | shēngxìng | - natural disposition |
| 生息 | 生息 | shēngxī | - to inhabit - to live (in a habitat) |
| 生意 | 生意 | shēngyì | - life force - vitality |
| 生意 | 生意 | shēngyi | - business - CL:筆|笔[bi3] |
| 生态 | 生態 | shēngtài | - ecology |
| 生成 | 生成 | shēngchéng | - to generate - to produce - generated - produced |
| 生手 | 生手 | shēngshǒu | - novice - new hand - sb new to a job |
| 生技 | 生技 | shēngjì | - biotechnology - abbr. for 生物技術|生物技术 |
| 生抽 | 生抽 | shēngchōu | - light soy sauce |
| 生擒 | 生擒 | shēngqín | - to capture alive |
| 生效 | 生效 | shēngxiào | - to take effect - to go into effect |
| 生日 | 生日 | shēngrì | - birthday - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 生机 | 生機 | shēngjī | - opportunity to live - to reprieve from death - life force - vitality |
| 生死 | 生死 | shēngsǐ | - life or death |
| 生殖 | 生殖 | shēngzhí | - to reproduce - to flourish |
| 生母 | 生母 | shēngmǔ | - natural mother - birth mother |
| 生气 | 生氣 | shēngqì | - to get angry - to take offense - angry - vitality - liveliness |
| 生水 | 生水 | shēngshuǐ | - unboiled water |
| 生活 | 生活 | shēnghuó | - life - activity - to live - livelihood |
| 生涯 | 生涯 | shēngyá | - career - life (way in which sb lives) - period of one's life |
| 生源 | 生源 | shēngyuán | - supply of students - source of students |
| 生灭 | 生滅 | shēngmiè | - life and death |
| 生漆 | 生漆 | shēngqī | - raw lacquer |
| 生火 | 生火 | shēnghuǒ | - to make a fire - to light a fire |
| 生煎 | 生煎 | shēngjiān | - shengjian, a pan-fried bun filled with meat and juices, a Shanghai specialty |
| 生热 | 生熱 | shēngrè | - to generate heat |
| 生父 | 生父 | shēngfù | - biological father |
| 生物 | 生物 | shēngwù | - organism - living creature - life form - biological - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 生猛 | 生猛 | shēngměng | - full of life - violent - brave - fresh (of seafood) |
| 生理 | 生理 | shēnglǐ | - physiology |
| 生产 | 生產 | shēngchǎn | - to produce - to manufacture - to give birth to a child |
| 生畏 | 生畏 | shēngwèi | - to feel intimidated |
| 生番 | 生番 | shēngfān | - barbarian - aboriginal savage |
| 生疏 | 生疏 | shēngshū | - unfamiliar - strange - out of practice - not accustomed |
| 生疼 | 生疼 | shēngténg | - extremely painful |
| 生病 | 生病 | shēngbìng | - to fall ill |
| 生发 | 生發 | shēngfā | - to emerge and grow - to develop |
| 生皮 | 生皮 | shēngpí | - pelt - raw hide |
| 生硬 | 生硬 | shēngyìng | - stiff - harsh |
| 生米 | 生米 | shēngmǐ | - coarse rice - uncooked rice |
| 生粉 | 生粉 | shēngfěn | - cornflour - starch powder (cooking) |
| 生丝 | 生絲 | shēngsī | - raw silk |
| 生肉 | 生肉 | shēngròu | - raw meat |
| 生肖 | 生肖 | shēngxiào | - one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1] - animal from the Chinese zodiac |
| 生育 | 生育 | shēngyù | - to bear - to give birth - to grow - to rear - to bring up (children) |
| 生苔 | 生苔 | shēngtái | - mossy |
| 生菜 | 生菜 | shēngcài | - lettuce - raw fresh vegetables - greens |
| 生姜 | 生薑 | shēngjiāng | - fresh ginger |
| 生药 | 生藥 | shēngyào | - unprocessed medicinal herb |
| 生计 | 生計 | shēngjì | - livelihood |
| 生词 | 生詞 | shēngcí | - new word (in textbook) - word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied - CL:組|组[zu3],個|个[ge4] |
| 生财 | 生財 | shēngcái | - to make money |
| 生路 | 生路 | shēnglù | - lit. the path to life - way out of a predicament |
| 生辉 | 生輝 | shēnghuī | - to dazzle - to brighten up (a room etc) |
| 生辰 | 生辰 | shēngchén | - birthday |
| 生造 | 生造 | shēngzào | - to coin (words or expressions) |
| 生达 | 生達 | Shēngdá | - Sinda, name of former county 1983-1999 in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區|昌都地区[Chang1 du1 di4 qu1], Tibet |
| 生还 | 生還 | shēnghuán | - to return alive - to survive |
| 生锈 | 生銹 | shēngxiù | - to rust - to grow rusty - to corrode - oxidization |
| 生铁 | 生鐵 | shēngtiě | - pig iron |
| 生长 | 生長 | shēngzhǎng | - to grow |
| 生灵 | 生靈 | shēnglíng | - (literary) the people - living thing - creature |
| 生愿 | 生願 | shēngyuàn | - desire to exist (in Buddhism, tanhā) - craving for rebirth |
| 生养 | 生養 | shēngyǎng | - to bring up (children) - to raise - to bear |
| 产生 | 產生 | chǎnshēng | - 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 - to appear - appearance - emergence - generation - production - yield |
| 男生 | 男生 | nánshēng | - schoolboy - male student - boy - guy (young adult male) |
| 畜生 | 畜生 | chùsheng | - domestic animal - brute - bastard |
| 毕生 | 畢生 | bìshēng | - all one's life - lifetime |
| 发生 | 發生 | fāshēng | - to happen - to occur - to take place - to break out |
| 相生 | 相生 | xiāngshēng | - to engender one another |
| 眼生 | 眼生 | yǎnshēng | - unfamiliar - strange-looking |
| 众生 | 眾生 | zhòngshēng | - all living things |
| 童生 | 童生 | tóngshēng | - candidate who has not yet passed the county level imperial exam |
| 终生 | 終生 | zhōngshēng | - throughout one's life - lifetime - lifelong |
| 维生 | 維生 | wéishēng | - abbr. for 維持生活|维持生活[wei2 chi2 sheng1 huo2] |
| 老生 | 老生 | lǎoshēng | - venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera) |
| 考生 | 考生 | kǎoshēng | - exam candidate - student whose name has been put forward for an exam |
| 聊生 | 聊生 | liáoshēng | - to earn a living (esp. with negative) |
| 胎生 | 胎生 | tāishēng | - viviparity - zoogony |
| 腋生 | 腋生 | yèshēng | - axillary (botany) - budding in the angle between branch and stem |
| 花生 | 花生 | huāshēng | - peanut - groundnut - CL:粒[li4] |
| 萌生 | 萌生 | méngshēng | - to burgeon - to produce - to conceive - to be in the initial stage |
| 苍生 | 蒼生 | cāngshēng | - (area where) vegetation grows - the common people |
| 蔓生 | 蔓生 | mànshēng | - trailing plant - liana - creeper - overgrown |
| 衍生 | 衍生 | yǎnshēng | - to give rise to - to derive - derivative - derivation |
| 卫生 | 衛生 | wèishēng | - health - hygiene - sanitation |
| 亲生 | 親生 | qīnshēng | - one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) - biological (parents) - birth (parents) |
| 计生 | 計生 | jìshēng | - planned childbirth - birth control - family planning - abbr. for 計劃生育|计划生育 |
| 认生 | 認生 | rènshēng | - shy with strangers |
| 诞生 | 誕生 | dànshēng | - to be born |
| 诸生 | 諸生 | zhūshēng | - Imperial scholar from the Ming Dynasty onwards |
| 谋生 | 謀生 | móushēng | - to seek one's livelihood - to work to support oneself - to earn a living |
| 贡生 | 貢生 | gòngshēng | - candidate for the Imperial Examination proposed by a tributary state |
| 贴生 | 貼生 | tiēshēng | - male supporting actor in a Chinese opera |
| 赘生 | 贅生 | zhuìshēng | - excrescence - abnormal superfluous growth |
| 超生 | 超生 | chāoshēng | - to exceed the stipulated limit of a birth-control policy - to be reincarnated - to be lenient |
| 轻生 | 輕生 | qīngshēng | - a suicide - to commit suicide |
| 转生 | 轉生 | zhuǎnshēng | - reincarnation (Buddhism) |
| 逃生 | 逃生 | táoshēng | - to flee for one's life |
| 医生 | 醫生 | yīshēng | - doctor - CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2] |
| 重生 | 重生 | chóngshēng | - rebirth |
| 野生 | 野生 | yěshēng | - wild - undomesticated |
| 长生 | 長生 | chángshēng | - long life |
| 门生 | 門生 | ménshēng | - disciple - student (of a famous master) |
| 陌生 | 陌生 | mòshēng | - strange - unfamiliar |
| 降生 | 降生 | jiàngshēng | - to be born - arrival of newborn - birth (of a savior or religious leader) |
| 陆生 | 陸生 | lùshēng | - terrestrial (animal, species) |
| 双生 | 雙生 | shuāngshēng | - twin (attributive) - twins |
| 养生 | 養生 | yǎngshēng | - to maintain good health - to raise a child or animal - curing (of concrete etc) |
| 须生 | 鬚生 | xūshēng | - see 老生[lao3 sheng1] |
| 麻生 | 麻生 | Máshēng | - Asō (name) - ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister 2008-2009 |
| 一年生 | 一年生 | yīniánshēng | - annual (botany) |
| 中学生 | 中學生 | zhōngxuéshēng | - middle-school student - high school student |
| 中生代 | 中生代 | Zhōngshēngdài | - Mesozoic (geological era 250-65m years ago, covering Triassic 三疊紀|三叠纪, Jurassic 侏羅紀|侏罗纪 and Cretaceous 白堊紀|白垩纪) |
| 二年生 | 二年生 | èrniánshēng | - biennial (botany) |
| 互生叶 | 互生葉 | hùshēngyè | - alternate phyllotaxy (leaf pattern) |
| 仿生学 | 仿生學 | fǎngshēngxué | - bionics - bionicist |
| 伴生气 | 伴生氣 | bànshēngqì | - associated gas |
| 但尼生 | 但尼生 | Dànníshēng | - Tennyson (name) - Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet |
| 使生气 | 使生氣 | shǐshēngqì | - to displease |
| 值日生 | 值日生 | zhírìshēng | - student on duty - prefect |
| 做生意 | 做生意 | zuòshēngyì | - to do business |
| 做生日 | 做生日 | zuòshēngrì | - to celebrate a birthday - to give a birthday party |
| 做生活 | 做生活 | zuòshēnghuó | - to work - to do manual labor |
| 催生婆 | 催生婆 | cuīshēngpó | - midwife who induces labor |
| 催生素 | 催生素 | cuīshēngsù | - oxytocin |
| 优生学 | 優生學 | yōushēngxué | - eugenics |
| 入伍生 | 入伍生 | rùwǔshēng | - newly enlisted officer student - cadet |
| 内生的 | 內生的 | nèishēngde | - endogenous |
| 两生类 | 兩生類 | liǎngshēnglèi | - class Amphibia - also written 兩棲類|两栖类[liang3 qi1 lei4] |
| 再生产 | 再生產 | zàishēngchǎn | - producing a copy - to reproduce |
| 再发生 | 再發生 | zàifāshēng | - to reoccur |
| 准生证 | 准生證 | zhǔnshēngzhèng | - birth permit |
| 出生地 | 出生地 | chūshēngdì | - birthplace |
| 出生率 | 出生率 | chūshēnglǜ | - birthrate |
| 出生证 | 出生證 | chūshēngzhèng | - birth certificate - CL:張|张[zhang1] |
| 初中生 | 初中生 | chūzhōngshēng | - junior high student |
| 厚生相 | 厚生相 | hòushēngxiàng | - minister of health (of Japan, UK etc) |
| 厚生省 | 厚生省 | Hòushēngshěng | - Ministry of Health and Welfare (Japan) (replaced in 2001 by 厚生勞動省|厚生劳动省[Hou4 sheng1 Lao2 dong4 sheng3]) |
| 原生质 | 原生質 | yuánshēngzhì | - protoplasm |
| 古生代 | 古生代 | Gǔshēngdài | - Paleozoic, geological era 545-250m years ago, covering Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪, Ordovician 奧陶紀|奥陶纪, Silurian 志留紀|志留纪, Devonian 泥盆紀|泥盆纪, Carboniferous 石炭紀|石炭纪, Permian 二疊紀|二叠纪 |
| 古生物 | 古生物 | gǔshēngwù | - paleo-organism |
| 可再生 | 可再生 | kězàishēng | - renewable (resource) |
| 多年生 | 多年生 | duōniánshēng | - perennial (of plants) |
| 夜生活 | 夜生活 | yèshēnghuó | - night life |
| 大学生 | 大學生 | dàxuéshēng | - university student - college student |
| 夹生饭 | 夾生飯 | jiāshēngfàn | - half cooked rice - (fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance - Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5 fan4] |
| 娃娃生 | 娃娃生 | wáwashēng | - infant's part in opera, usually played by child actor |
| 学生会 | 學生會 | xuéshenghuì | - student union |
| 学生证 | 學生證 | xuéshengzhèng | - student identity card |
| 安徒生 | 安徒生 | Āntúshēng | - Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| 寄宿生 | 寄宿生 | jìsùshēng | - boarder |
| 寄生物 | 寄生物 | jìshēngwù | - parasite |
| 寄生者 | 寄生者 | jìshēngzhě | - parasite (human) |
| 寄生虫 | 寄生蟲 | jìshēngchóng | - parasite - drone |
| 实习生 | 實習生 | shíxísheng | - intern (student) |
| 宝生佛 | 寶生佛 | Bǎoshēngfó | - Ratnasambhava Buddha |
| 小学生 | 小學生 | xiǎoxuéshēng | - primary school student - schoolchild - CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2] |
| 尖子生 | 尖子生 | jiānzishēng | - top student |
| 工读生 | 工讀生 | gōngdúshēng | - student who also works part-time - (old) reform-school student |
| 复读生 | 復讀生 | fùdúshēng | - student who repeats (a course, grade etc) at school |
| 微生物 | 微生物 | wēishēngwù | - microorganism |
| 德先生 | 德先生 | Déxiānsheng | - "Mr Democracy", phrase used during the May 4th Movement 五四運動|五四运动[Wu3 si4 Yun4 dong4] - abbr. for 德謨克拉西|德谟克拉西[de2 mo2 ke4 la1 xi1] - see also 賽先生|赛先生[Sai4 xian1 sheng5] |
| 性生活 | 性生活 | xìngshēnghuó | - sex life |
| 怯生生 | 怯生生 | qièshēngshēng | - shy |
| 爱普生 | 愛普生 | Àipǔshēng | - Epson, Japanese electronics company |
| 爱迪生 | 愛迪生 | Àidíshēng | - Edison (name) - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor and businessman |
| 抗生素 | 抗生素 | kàngshēngsù | - antibiotic |
| 拉生意 | 拉生意 | lāshēngyì | - to tout - to solicit customers |
| 抛生耦 | 拋生耦 | pāoshēngǒu | - to entice an inexperienced man |
| 接生婆 | 接生婆 | jiēshēngpó | - midwife |
| 接线生 | 接線生 | jiēxiànshēng | - switchboard operator - phone operator |
| 抢生意 | 搶生意 | qiǎngshēngyi | - to undercut competitors - to hustle - to compete for business |
| 收生婆 | 收生婆 | shōushēngpó | - midwife |
| 救生圈 | 救生圈 | jiùshēngquān | - life buoy - life belt - (jocularly) flab - spare tire |
| 救生筏 | 救生筏 | jiùshēngfá | - a life raft |
| 救生船 | 救生船 | jiùshēngchuán | - lifeboat |
| 救生艇 | 救生艇 | jiùshēngtǐng | - lifeboat |
| 救生衣 | 救生衣 | jiùshēngyī | - life jacket - life vest |
| 救生袋 | 救生袋 | jiùshēngdài | - safety chute |
| 救生队 | 救生隊 | jiùshēngduì | - rescue team - CL:支[zhi1] |
| 新出生 | 新出生 | xīnchūshēng | - newly born |
| 新生代 | 新生代 | Xīnshēngdài | - Cenozoic (geological era covering the last 65m years) |
| 新生儿 | 新生兒 | xīnshēngér | - newborn baby - neonate |
| 易卜生 | 易卜生 | Yìbǔshēng | - Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House 玩偶之家 |
| 服务生 | 服務生 | fúwùshēng | - server (at a restaurant) |
| 本生灯 | 本生燈 | Běnshēngdēng | - Bunsen burner |
| 本科生 | 本科生 | běnkēshēng | - undergraduate student |
| 槲寄生 | 槲寄生 | hújìshēng | - mistletoe |
| 次生林 | 次生林 | cìshēnglín | - secondary growth of forest |
| 活生生 | 活生生 | huóshēngshēng | - real (people) - living (artist) - while still alive (e.g. skinned alive) |
| 派生词 | 派生詞 | pàishēngcí | - derivative word |
| 无生命 | 無生命 | wúshēngmìng | - inert - lifeless |
| 独生女 | 獨生女 | dúshēngnǚ | - an only daughter |
| 独生子 | 獨生子 | dúshēngzǐ | - only son |
| 生化学 | 生化學 | shēnghuàxué | - biochemistry |
| 生卒年 | 生卒年 | shēngzúnián | - dates of birth and death (of historical figure) |
| 生命力 | 生命力 | shēngmìnglì | - vitality |
| 生命线 | 生命線 | shēngmìngxiàn | - lifeline |
| 生啤酒 | 生啤酒 | shēngpíjiǔ | - draft beer - unpasteurized beer |
| 生奶油 | 生奶油 | shēngnǎiyóu | - cream - whipped cream |
| 生闷气 | 生悶氣 | shēngmènqì | - to seethe - to sulk - to be pissed off (vulgar) |
| 生意经 | 生意經 | shēngyijīng | - knack of doing business - business sense |
| 生态圈 | 生態圈 | shēngtàiquān | - ecosphere |
| 生态学 | 生態學 | shēngtàixué | - ecology |
| 生成树 | 生成樹 | shēngchéngshù | - spanning tree (in graph theory) |
| 生日卡 | 生日卡 | shēngrìkǎ | - birthday card |
| 生有权 | 生有權 | shēngyǒuquán | - birthright |
| 生殖力 | 生殖力 | shēngzhílì | - fertility |
| 生殖器 | 生殖器 | shēngzhíqì | - reproductive organ - genitals |
| 生殖腺 | 生殖腺 | shēngzhíxiàn | - reproductive gland - gonad - sex organ |
| 生殖轮 | 生殖輪 | shēngzhílún | - svādhisthāna or svadhisthana, the navel or libido chakra 查克拉, residing in the genitals |
| 生活费 | 生活費 | shēnghuófèi | - cost of living - living expenses - alimony |
| 生活馆 | 生活館 | shēnghuóguǎn | - living museum |
| 生煎包 | 生煎包 | shēngjiānbāo | - pan-fried dumpling |
| 生父母 | 生父母 | shēngfùmǔ | - biological parents - natural parents |
| 生物圈 | 生物圈 | shēngwùquān | - biosphere - ecosphere |
| 生物学 | 生物學 | shēngwùxué | - biology |
| 生物性 | 生物性 | shēngwùxìng | - biological |
| 生物战 | 生物戰 | shēngwùzhàn | - germ warfare - biological warfare |
| 生物界 | 生物界 | shēngwùjiè | - biosphere - natural world |
| 生物群 | 生物群 | shēngwùqún | - biota - ecological community - fossil assemblage |
| 生物能 | 生物能 | shēngwùnéng | - bio-energy |
| 生物质 | 生物質 | shēngwùzhì | - biomass |
| 生物量 | 生物量 | shēngwùliàng | - biomass |
| 生物链 | 生物鏈 | shēngwùliàn | - food chain |
| 生物钟 | 生物鐘 | shēngwùzhōng | - biological clock |
| 生物体 | 生物體 | shēngwùtǐ | - organism |
| 生物碱 | 生物鹼 | shēngwùjiǎn | - alkaloid |
| 生理假 | 生理假 | shēnglǐjià | - menstrual leave (Tw) |
| 生理学 | 生理學 | shēnglǐxué | - physiology |
| 生理性 | 生理性 | shēnglǐxìng | - physiological |
| 生产力 | 生產力 | shēngchǎnlì | - production capability - productive force - productivity |
| 生产率 | 生產率 | shēngchǎnlǜ | - productivity - efficiency of production |
| 生产线 | 生產線 | shēngchǎnxiàn | - assembly line - production line |
| 生产者 | 生產者 | shēngchǎnzhě | - producer of a product - manufacturer - autotroph (original producers in a food chain) |
| 生产队 | 生產隊 | shēngchǎnduì | - production team |
| 生石灰 | 生石灰 | shēngshíhuī | - calcium oxide CaO - quicklime |
| 生石膏 | 生石膏 | shēngshígāo | - gypsum CaSO4·2(H2O) - plaster |
| 生粉水 | 生粉水 | shēngfěnshuǐ | - starch solution (cooking) |
| 生育率 | 生育率 | shēngyùlǜ | - birth rate |
| 生姜丝 | 生薑絲 | shēngjiāngsī | - shredded ginger |
| 生词本 | 生詞本 | shēngcíběn | - vocabulary notebook |
| 生词语 | 生詞語 | shēngcíyǔ | - vocabulary words (in language-learning books) - new or unfamiliar words |
| 生达县 | 生達縣 | Shēngdáxiàn | - Sinda county, name of former county 1983-1999 in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區|昌都地区[Chang1 du1 di4 qu1], Tibet |
| 生达乡 | 生達鄉 | Shēngdáxiāng | - Sinda village in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區|昌都地区[Chang1 du1 di4 qu1], Tibet |
| 生还者 | 生還者 | shēnghuánzhě | - survivor |
| 生长率 | 生長率 | shēngzhǎnglǜ | - growth rate |
| 生长素 | 生長素 | shēngzhǎngsù | - auxin (plant growth hormone) |
| 生发剂 | 生髮劑 | shēngfàjì | - hair restorer - hair regrowth tonic |
| 生鱼片 | 生魚片 | shēngyúpiàn | - sashimi |
| 生面团 | 生麵糰 | shēngmiàntuán | - dough |
| 留学生 | 留學生 | liúxuéshēng | - student studying abroad - (foreign) exchange student - CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] |
| 毕业生 | 畢業生 | bìyèshēng | - graduate |
| 发生率 | 發生率 | fāshēnglǜ | - rate of occurrence |
| 研究生 | 研究生 | yánjiūshēng | - graduate student - postgraduate student - research student |
| 硬生生 | 硬生生 | yìngshēngshēng | - stiff - rigid - inflexible - forcibly |
| 硕士生 | 碩士生 | shuòshìshēng | - Master's degree student |
| 私生子 | 私生子 | sīshēngzǐ | - illegitimate child (male) - bastard - love child |
| 维生素 | 維生素 | wéishēngsù | - vitamin |
| 肄业生 | 肄業生 | yìyèshēng | - dropout student |
| 腐生兰 | 腐生蘭 | fǔshēnglán | - Cymbidium macrorrhizum Lindl. |
| 艾迪生 | 艾迪生 | Àidíshēng | - Addison (name) - Addison, city in United States |
| 花生浆 | 花生漿 | huāshēngjiàng | - peanut butter - also written 花生醬|花生酱 |
| 花生秀 | 花生秀 | huāshēngxiù | - fashion show |
| 花生米 | 花生米 | huāshēngmǐ | - shelled peanuts |
| 花生酱 | 花生醬 | huāshēngjiàng | - peanut butter |
| 落花生 | 落花生 | luòhuāshēng | - peanut |
| 衍生物 | 衍生物 | yǎnshēngwù | - a derivative (complex product derived from simpler source material) |
| 卫生丸 | 衛生丸 | wèishēngwán | - mothball - (jocular term) bullet |
| 卫生套 | 衛生套 | wèishēngtào | - condom |
| 卫生局 | 衛生局 | wèishēngjú | - health office - bureau of hygiene |
| 卫生巾 | 衛生巾 | wèishēngjīn | - sanitary towel |
| 卫生厅 | 衛生廳 | wèishēngtīng | - (provincial) health department |
| 卫生棉 | 衛生棉 | wèishēngmián | - sterilized absorbent cotton wool (used for dressings or cleansing wounds) - sanitary napkin - tampon |
| 卫生球 | 衛生球 | wèishēngqiú | - mothball |
| 卫生纸 | 衛生紙 | wèishēngzhǐ | - toilet paper - bathroom tissue |
| 卫生署 | 衛生署 | wèishēngshǔ | - health bureau (or office, or department, or agency) |
| 卫生部 | 衛生部 | Wèishēngbù | - Ministry of Health |
| 卫生间 | 衛生間 | wèishēngjiān | - bathroom - toilet - WC - CL:間|间[jian1] |
| 见习生 | 見習生 | jiànxíshēng | - apprentice - probationer - cadet |
| 讨生活 | 討生活 | tǎoshēnghuó | - to eke out a living - to live from hand to mouth - to drift aimlessly |
| 资生堂 | 資生堂 | Zīshēngtáng | - Shiseidō (Japanese cosmetics company) |
| 赛先生 | 賽先生 | Sàixiānsheng | - "Mr Science", phrase used during the May 4th Movement 五四運動|五四运动[Wu3 si4 Yun4 dong4] - abbr. for 賽因斯|赛因斯[sai4 yin1 si1] - see also 德先生[De2 xian1 sheng5] |
| 跳级生 | 跳級生 | tiàojíshēng | - student who jumps a year |
| 转学生 | 轉學生 | zhuǎnxuésheng | - student who changes school |
| 野生猫 | 野生貓 | yěshēngmāo | - wild cat |
| 长生果 | 長生果 | chángshēngguǒ | - peanut - groundnut (slang) |
| 陌生人 | 陌生人 | mòshēngrén | - stranger |
| 隐生宙 | 隱生宙 | yǐnshēngzhòu | - Cryptozoic - geological eon before the appearance of abundant fossils - hidden life, as opposed to Phanerozoic |
| 非婚生 | 非婚生 | fēihūnshēng | - born out of wedlock - illegitimate |
| 显生代 | 顯生代 | Xiǎnshēngdài | - Phanerozoic, geological eon lasting since the Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪[Han2 wu3 ji4], c. 540m year ago |
| 显生宙 | 顯生宙 | Xiǎnshēngzhòu | - Phanerozoic, geological eon lasting since the Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪[Han2 wu3 ji4], c. 540m year ago |
| 养生法 | 養生法 | yǎngshēngfǎ | - regime (diet) |
| 高中生 | 高中生 | gāozhōngshēng | - senior high school student |
| 高才生 | 高才生 | gāocáishēng | - student of great ability - talented student |
| 高材生 | 高材生 | gāocáishēng | - student of great ability |
| 魏京生 | 魏京生 | WèiJīngshēng | - Wei Jingsheng (1950-), Beijing-based Chinese dissident, imprisoned 1978-1993 and 1995-1997, released to the US in 1997 |
| 一生一世 | 一生一世 | yīshēngyīshì | - a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life |
| 七窍生烟 | 七竅生煙 | qīqiàoshēngyān | - lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom) - fig. to seethe with anger |
| 三生有幸 | 三生有幸 | sānshēngyǒuxìng | - the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom) - (courteous language) it's my good fortune... |
| 不事生产 | 不事生產 | bùshìshēngchǎn | - not to do anything productive - to idle away one's time |
| 九死一生 | 九死一生 | jiǔsǐyīshēng | - nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape - new lease of life |
| 了却此生 | 了卻此生 | liǎoquècǐshēng | - to die - to be done with this world |
| 人生如梦 | 人生如夢 | rénshēngrúmèng | - life is but a dream (idiom) |
| 人生朝露 | 人生朝露 | rénshēngzhāolù | - human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence |
| 人生盛衰 | 人生盛衰 | rénshēngshèngshuāi | - life has its ups and downs (idiom) |
| 休养生息 | 休養生息 | xiūyǎngshēngxī | - to recover - to recuperate |
| 借腹生子 | 借腹生子 | jièfùshēngzǐ | - surrogate pregnancy |
| 侧生动物 | 側生動物 | cèshēngdòngwù | - parazoan (animal of the subkingdom Parazoa, mostly sponges) |
| 内科医生 | 內科醫生 | nèikēyīshēng | - medical doctor - physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科醫生|外科医生[wai4 ke1 yi1 sheng1] |
| 两颊生津 | 兩頰生津 | liǎngjiáshēngjīn | - mouth-watering - to whet one's appetite |
| 公共卫生 | 公共衛生 | gōnggòngwèishēng | - public health |
| 再生制动 | 再生制動 | zàishēngzhìdòng | - regenerative brake |
| 再生燃料 | 再生燃料 | zàishēngránliào | - renewable fuel |
| 再生父母 | 再生父母 | zàishēngfùmǔ | - like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor |
| 再生能源 | 再生能源 | zàishēngnéngyuán | - renewable energy source |
| 出生入死 | 出生入死 | chūshēngrùsǐ | - from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water - brave - willing to risk life and limb |
| 出生地点 | 出生地點 | chūshēngdìdiǎn | - place of birth |
| 出生日期 | 出生日期 | chūshēngrìqī | - date of birth |
| 出生缺陷 | 出生缺陷 | chūshēngquēxiàn | - birth defect |
| 出生证明 | 出生證明 | chūshēngzhèngmíng | - birth certificate - CL:張|张[zhang1] |
| 分生组织 | 分生組織 | fēnshēngzǔzhī | - meristem |
| 别开生面 | 別開生面 | biékāishēngmiàn | - to start sth new or original (idiom); to break a new path - to break fresh ground |
| 前生冤孽 | 前生冤孽 | qiánshēngyuānniè | - predestined relationship |
| 前生召唤 | 前生召喚 | qiánshēngzhàohuàn | - foreordination |
| 劫后余生 | 劫後餘生 | jiéhòuyúshēng | - after the calamity, renewed life (idiom); new lease of life |
| 半生不熟 | 半生不熟 | bànshēngbùshóu | - underripe - half-cooked - (fig.) not mastered (of a technique) - clumsy - halting |
| 厚死薄生 | 厚死薄生 | hòusǐbóshēng | - lit. to praise the dead and revile the living - fig. to live in the past (idiom) |
| 原核生物 | 原核生物 | yuánhéshēngwù | - prokaryote |
| 原生动物 | 原生動物 | yuánshēngdòngwù | - protozoan (bacteria) |
| 原生生物 | 原生生物 | yuánshēngshēngwù | - protist - primitive organism |
| 反生物战 | 反生物戰 | fǎnshēngwùzhàn | - biological (warfare) defense |
| 口齿生香 | 口齒生香 | kǒuchǐshēngxiāng | - eloquence that generates perfume (idiom); profound and significant text |
| 古生物学 | 古生物學 | gǔshēngwùxué | - palaeontology |
| 可再生原 | 可再生原 | kězàishēngyuán | - renewable resource |
| 同配生殖 | 同配生殖 | tóngpèishēngzhí | - isogamy |
| 和气生财 | 和氣生財 | héqìshēngcái | - (idiom) amiability makes you rich |
| 品味生活 | 品味生活 | pǐnwèishēnghuó | - to appreciate life |
| 哑然无生 | 啞然無生 | yǎránwúshēng | - silence reigns (idiom) |
| 四大须生 | 四大鬚生 | sìdàxūshēng | - Four great beards of Beijing opera, namely: Ma Lianliang 馬連良|马连良, Tan Fuying 譚富英|谭富英, Yang Baosen 楊寶森|杨宝森, Xi Xiaobo 奚嘯伯|奚啸伯 |
| 土生土长 | 土生土長 | tǔshēngtǔzhǎng | - locally born and bred - indigenous - home-grown |
| 外科医生 | 外科醫生 | wàikēyīshēng | - surgeon - as opposed to physician 內科醫生|内科医生[nei4 ke1 yi1 sheng1], who works primarily by administering drugs |
| 大中学生 | 大中學生 | dàzhōngxuésheng | - university and high school students |
| 大量生产 | 大量生產 | dàliàngshēngchǎn | - to manufacture in bulk - mass production |
| 女生外向 | 女生外向 | nǚshēngwàixiàng | - woman's duty to get married (in former times) - woman's orientation to her husband's family (traditional Confucian assumption) |
| 奶油小生 | 奶油小生 | nǎiyóuxiǎoshēng | - handsome but effeminate man - pretty boy |
| 好好先生 | 好好先生 | hǎohǎoxiānsheng | - Mr Goody-goody - yes-man (sb who agrees with anything) |
| 妄生穿凿 | 妄生穿鑿 | wàngshēngchuānzáo | - a forced analogy (idiom); to jump to an unwarranted conclusion |
| 妙笔生花 | 妙筆生花 | miàobǐshēnghuā | - gifted or skillful writing |
| 妙语横生 | 妙語橫生 | miàoyǔhéngshēng | - to be full of wit and humor |
| 妙趣横生 | 妙趣橫生 | miàoqùhéngshēng | - endlessly interesting (idiom) - very witty |
| 娇生惯养 | 嬌生慣養 | jiāoshēngguànyǎng | - pampered and spoiled since childhood |
| 孑遗生物 | 孑遺生物 | jiéyíshēngwù | - living fossil |
| 孤雌生殖 | 孤雌生殖 | gūcíshēngzhí | - parthenogenesis (biol. a female reproducing without fertilization) |
| 孰能生巧 | 孰能生巧 | shúnéngshēngqiǎo | - practice makes perfect |
| 学生运动 | 學生運動 | xuéshengyùndòng | - student movement |
| 寄生生活 | 寄生生活 | jìshēngshēnghuó | - parasitism - parasitic life-style |
| 寸草不生 | 寸草不生 | cùncǎobùshēng | - lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom) - fig. barren |
| 寻事生非 | 尋事生非 | xúnshìshēngfēi | - to look for trouble |
| 座生水母 | 座生水母 | zuòshēngshuǐmǔ | - sessile medusa - sea anemone |
| 强生公司 | 強生公司 | QiángshēngGōngsī | - Johnson & Johnson |
| 后生动物 | 後生動物 | hòushēngdòngwù | - metazoa - the animal kingdom |
| 后生可畏 | 後生可畏 | hòushēngkěwèi | - will be redoubtable in later life (idiom); a young person's abilities must be respected, though inexperienced - the younger generations will surpass us in time |
| 得意门生 | 得意門生 | déyìménshēng | - favorite pupil |
| 微生物学 | 微生物學 | wēishēngwùxué | - microbiology |
| 忍垢偷生 | 忍垢偷生 | rěngòutōushēng | - to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom) |
| 忍辱偷生 | 忍辱偷生 | rěnrǔtōushēng | - to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom) |
| 急中生智 | 急中生智 | jízhōngshēngzhì | - quick witted in an emergency - able to react resourcefully |
| 恒生指数 | 恒生指數 | HéngShēngzhǐshù | - Hang Seng index (of Hong Kong stock market) |
| 恒生银行 | 恒生銀行 | HéngShēngYínháng | - Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong |
| 情急智生 | 情急智生 | qíngjízhìshēng | - inspiration in a moment of desperation (idiom) - also written 情急之下 |
| 惹事生非 | 惹事生非 | rěshìshēngfēi | - variant of 惹是生非[re3 shi4 sheng1 fei1] |
| 惹是生非 | 惹是生非 | rěshìshēngfēi | - to stir up trouble |
| 慷慨捐生 | 慷慨捐生 | kāngkǎijuānshēng | - sacrificing one's life generously (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause |
| 憨豆先生 | 憨豆先生 | HāndòuXiānsheng | - Mr. Bean (TV) |
| 应运而生 | 應運而生 | yìngyùnérshēng | - to emerge to meet a historic destiny (idiom) - to arise at an opportune time - able to take advantage of an opportunity - to rise to the occasion |
| 戎马生涯 | 戎馬生涯 | róngmǎshēngyá | - army life (idiom) - the experience of war |
| 批量生产 | 批量生產 | pīliàngshēngchǎn | - to mass produce |
| 抗抗生素 | 抗抗生素 | kàngkàngshēngsù | - antibiotic resistance |
| 招揽生意 | 招攬生意 | zhāolǎnshēngyi | - to advertise - to solicit business |
| 舍生取义 | 捨生取義 | shěshēngqǔyì | - to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius); to choose honor over life - would rather sacrifice one's life than one's principles |
| 舍生忘死 | 捨生忘死 | shěshēngwàngsǐ | - bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb - undaunted by perils |
| 撩是生非 | 撩是生非 | liáoshìshēngfēi | - to stir up trouble - to provoke angry exchange |
| 政治生活 | 政治生活 | zhèngzhìshēnghuó | - political life |
| 日久生情 | 日久生情 | rìjiǔshēngqíng | - familiarity breeds fondness (idiom) |
| 日落风生 | 日落風生 | rìluòfēngshēng | - a gentle breeze comes with sunset (idiom) |
| 早生贵子 | 早生貴子 | zǎoshēngguìzǐ | - give birth to a son soon (propitiatory compliment to the newly-weds) |
| 普度众生 | 普度眾生 | pǔdùzhòngshēng | - (Buddhism) to deliver all living creatures from suffering (idiom) |
| 普济众生 | 普濟眾生 | pǔjìzhòngshēng | - universal mercy and succor (idiom); the Buddha's infinite power and mercy |
| 有性生殖 | 有性生殖 | yǒuxìngshēngzhí | - sexual reproduction |
| 有生以来 | 有生以來 | yǒushēngyǐlái | - since birth - for one's whole life |
| 望文生义 | 望文生義 | wàngwénshēngyì | - lit. view a text and interpret (idiom); to interpret word-by-word without understanding the meaning - a far-fetched interpretation |
| 望而生畏 | 望而生畏 | wàngérshēngwèi | - intimidate at the first glance (idiom); awe-inspiring - terrifying - overwhelming |
| 枝节横生 | 枝節橫生 | zhījiéhéngshēng | - a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising |
| 栩栩如生 | 栩栩如生 | xǔxǔrúshēng | - vivid and lifelike (idiom); true to life - realistic |
| 栩栩生辉 | 栩栩生輝 | xǔxǔshēnghuī | - resplendent |
| 乐极生悲 | 樂極生悲 | lèjíshēngbēi | - extreme joy turns to sorrow (idiom); Don't celebrate too soon, things could still go wrong! |
| 横生枝节 | 橫生枝節 | héngshēngzhījié | - to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom) |
| 次生灾害 | 次生災害 | cìshēngzāihài | - secondary disaster (e.g. epidemic following floods) |
| 死中求生 | 死中求生 | sǐzhōngqiúshēng | - to seek life in death (idiom); to fight for one's life |
| 死里逃生 | 死裡逃生 | sǐlǐtáoshēng | - mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape - to survive by the skin of one's teeth |
| 民不聊生 | 民不聊生 | mínbùliáoshēng | - The people have no way to make a living (idiom, from Record of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4]) - no way of getting by |
| 民生主义 | 民生主義 | mínshēngzhǔyì | - principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade) |
| 民生凋敝 | 民生凋敝 | mínshēngdiāobì | - the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment |
| 求生意志 | 求生意志 | qiúshēngyìzhì | - the will to live |
| 江湖医生 | 江湖醫生 | Jiānghúyīshēng | - quack - charlatan - itinerant doctor and swindler |
| 油然而生 | 油然而生 | yóuránérshēng | - arising involuntarily (idiom); spontaneous - to spring up unbidden (of emotion) |
| 浮游生物 | 浮游生物 | fúyóushēngwù | - plankton |
| 浮生六记 | 浮生六記 | fúshēngliùjì | - Six records of a floating life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈復|沈复[Shen3 Fu4], published 1808 |
| 满脸生花 | 滿臉生花 | mǎnliǎnshēnghuā | - all smiles - beaming from ear to ear |
| 无中生有 | 無中生有 | wúzhōngshēngyǒu | - to create something from nothing (idiom) |
| 无事生非 | 無事生非 | wúshìshēngfēi | - to make trouble out of nothing |
| 无以为生 | 無以為生 | wúyǐwéishēng | - no way to get by |
| 熟能生巧 | 熟能生巧 | shúnéngshēngqiǎo | - with familiarity you learn the trick (idiom); practice makes perfect |
| 牙科医生 | 牙科醫生 | yákēyīshēng | - dentist |
| 独生子女 | 獨生子女 | dúshēngzǐnǚ | - an only child |
| 环境卫生 | 環境衛生 | huánjìngwèishēng | - environmental sanitation - abbr. to 環衛|环卫[huan2 wei4] |
| 生不逢时 | 生不逢時 | shēngbùféngshí | - born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate) - born under an unlucky star - ahead of his time |
| 生儿育女 | 生兒育女 | shēngéryùnǚ | - to bear and raise children |
| 生化武器 | 生化武器 | shēnghuàwǔqì | - biological weapon |
| 生卒年月 | 生卒年月 | shēngzúniányuè | - dates of birth and death (of historical figure) |
| 生吞活剥 | 生吞活剝 | shēngtūnhuóbō | - to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically |
| 生命吠陀 | 生命吠陀 | shēngmìngfèituó | - Ayurveda (ancient Indian system and health care philosophy) - also written 阿育吠陀[a1 yu4 fei4 tuo2] |
| 生命征象 | 生命徵象 | shēngmìngzhēngxiàng | - vital signs |
| 生命科学 | 生命科學 | shēngmìngkēxué | - life sciences |
| 生命迹象 | 生命跡象 | shēngmìngjìxiàng | - sign of life |
| 生命周期 | 生命週期 | shēngmìngzhōuqī | - life cycle |
| 生存环境 | 生存環境 | shēngcúnhuánjìng | - habitat - living environment |
| 生存农业 | 生存農業 | shēngcúnnóngyè | - subsistence farming - subsistence agriculture |
| 生平事迹 | 生平事跡 | shēngpíngshìjì | - lifetime achievements |
| 生平简介 | 生平簡介 | shēngpíngjiǎnjiè | - biographic sketch |
| 生意盎然 | 生意盎然 | shēngyìàngrán | - see 生機盎然|生机盎然[sheng1 ji1 ang4 ran2] |
| 生意兴隆 | 生意興隆 | shēngyìxīnglóng | - thriving and prosperous business or trade |
| 生态孤岛 | 生態孤島 | shēngtàigūdǎo | - insularization (as a threat to biodiversity) |
| 生态学家 | 生態學家 | shēngtàixuéjiā | - ecologist |
| 生态旅游 | 生態旅遊 | shēngtàilǚyóu | - ecotourism |
| 生态系统 | 生態系統 | shēngtàixìtǒng | - ecosystem |
| 生态足迹 | 生態足迹 | shēngtàizújì | - ecological footprint |
| 生技医药 | 生技醫藥 | shēngjìyīyào | - biopharmaceutical - drug produced by biotechnology |
| 生拉活扯 | 生拉活扯 | shēnglāhuóchě | - to wildly exaggerate the meaning of sth (idiom) |
| 生拉硬拽 | 生拉硬拽 | shēnglāyìngzhuài | - to drag sb along against his will - to draw a forced analogy |
| 生日快乐 | 生日快樂 | shēngrìkuàilè | - Happy birthday |
| 生日贺卡 | 生日賀卡 | shēngrìhèkǎ | - birthday card |
| 生荣死哀 | 生榮死哀 | shēngróngsǐāi | - to be respected in life and lamented in death (idiom) |
| 生机勃勃 | 生機勃勃 | shēngjībóbó | - full of vitality |
| 生机盎然 | 生機盎然 | shēngjīàngrán | - full of life - exuberant |
| 生死存亡 | 生死存亡 | shēngsǐcúnwáng | - matter of life and death |
| 生死攸关 | 生死攸關 | shēngsǐyōuguān | - matter of life and death |
| 生死肉骨 | 生死肉骨 | shēngsǐròugǔ | - lit. the dead returning to life - a miracle (idiom) |
| 生死关头 | 生死關頭 | shēngsǐguāntóu | - the critical moment - life and death crisis |
| 生殖器官 | 生殖器官 | shēngzhíqìguān | - reproductive organ |
| 生殖系统 | 生殖系統 | shēngzhíxìtǒng | - reproductive system |
| 生殖细胞 | 生殖細胞 | shēngzhíxìbāo | - gamete |
| 生杀大权 | 生殺大權 | shēngshādàquán | - life-and-death power - ultimate power |
| 生气勃勃 | 生氣勃勃 | shēngqìbóbó | - full of vitality |
| 生气盎然 | 生氣盎然 | shēngqìàngrán | - see 生機盎然|生机盎然[sheng1 yi4 ang4 ran2] |
| 生活作风 | 生活作風 | shēnghuózuòfēng | - behavior - conduct |
| 生活垃圾 | 生活垃圾 | shēnghuólājī | - domestic garbage |
| 生活方式 | 生活方式 | shēnghuófāngshì | - way of life - lifestyle |
| 生活水平 | 生活水平 | shēnghuóshuǐpíng | - living standards |
| 生活污水 | 生活污水 | shēnghuówūshuǐ | - domestic sewage |
| 生活美学 | 生活美學 | shēnghuóměixué | - appreciation of the finer things in life |
| 生活设施 | 生活設施 | shēnghuóshèshī | - living facilities |
| 生活资料 | 生活資料 | shēnghuózīliào | - consumer goods - means of livelihood - means of subsistence - documents relating to sb's life |
| 生活质料 | 生活質料 | shēnghuózhìliào | - consumer goods |
| 生活阔绰 | 生活闊綽 | shēnghuókuòchuò | - a flashy lifestyle - to live it up |
| 生炒热卖 | 生炒熱賣 | shēngchǎorèmài | - to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product) |
| 生物力学 | 生物力學 | shēngwùlìxué | - biomechanics |
| 生物化学 | 生物化學 | shēngwùhuàxué | - biochemistry |
| 生物媒介 | 生物媒介 | shēngwùméijiè | - biological vector |
| 生物学家 | 生物學家 | shēngwùxuéjiā | - biologist |
| 生物工程 | 生物工程 | shēngwùgōngchéng | - bioengineering - genetic engineering |
| 生物弹药 | 生物彈藥 | shēngwùdànyào | - biological ammunition |
| 生物战剂 | 生物戰劑 | shēngwùzhànjì | - biological agent - biological warfare agent |
| 生物技术 | 生物技術 | shēngwùjìshù | - biotechnology - abbr. to 生技 |
| 生物晶片 | 生物晶片 | shēngwùjīngpiàn | - biochip |
| 生物材料 | 生物材料 | shēngwùcáiliào | - bio-materials |
| 生物柴油 | 生物柴油 | shēngwùcháiyóu | - biodiesel |
| 生物武器 | 生物武器 | shēngwùwǔqì | - biological weapon |
| 生物气体 | 生物氣體 | shēngwùqìtǐ | - bio-gas |
| 生物测定 | 生物測定 | shēngwùcèdìng | - bioassay |
| 生物燃料 | 生物燃料 | shēngwùránliào | - biofuel |
| 生物科技 | 生物科技 | shēngwùkējì | - biotechnology |
| 生物制剂 | 生物製劑 | shēngwùzhìjì | - biological product |
| 生物制品 | 生物製品 | shēngwùzhìpǐn | - biological product |
| 生物质能 | 生物質能 | shēngwùzhìnéng | - biomass |
| 生物降解 | 生物降解 | shēngwùjiàngjiě | - biodegradation |
| 生理学家 | 生理學家 | shēnglǐxuéjiā | - physiologist |
| 生理盐水 | 生理鹽水 | shēnglǐyánshuǐ | - saline (medicine) |
| 生生不息 | 生生不息 | shēngshēngbùxī | - to grow and multiply without end |
| 生产企业 | 生產企業 | shēngchǎnqǐyè | - manufacturer |
| 生产劳动 | 生產勞動 | shēngchǎnláodòng | - productive labor |
| 生产单位 | 生產單位 | shēngchǎndānwèi | - production unit |
| 生产成本 | 生產成本 | shēngchǎnchéngběn | - production costs |
| 生产总值 | 生產總值 | shēngchǎnzǒngzhí | - gross domestic production (GDP) - total output value |
| 生产能力 | 生產能力 | shēngchǎnnénglì | - manufacturing ability - production capacity |
| 生产自救 | 生產自救 | shēngchǎnzìjiù | - self-help (idiom) |
| 生产要素 | 生產要素 | shēngchǎnyàosù | - factors of production |
| 生产设施 | 生產設施 | shēngchǎnshèshī | - production facility |
| 生产资料 | 生產資料 | shēngchǎnzīliào | - means of production |
| 生产关系 | 生產關係 | shēngchǎnguānxì | - relations between levels of production - socio-economic relations |
| 生米熟饭 | 生米熟飯 | shēngmǐshúfàn | - abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed - It's too late to change anything now. |
| 生老病死 | 生老病死 | shēnglǎobìngsǐ | - lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die - fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality) |
| 生耗氧量 | 生耗氧量 | shēnghàoyǎngliàng | - biological oxygen demand (BOD) |
| 生肖属相 | 生肖屬相 | shēngxiàoshǔxiàng | - birth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc) |
| 生育能力 | 生育能力 | shēngyùnénglì | - fertility - ability to have children |
| 生花妙笔 | 生花妙筆 | shēnghuāmiàobǐ | - beautiful or talented writing |
| 生财有道 | 生財有道 | shēngcáiyǒudào | - lit. there are principles behind making money (idiom); fig. to have a knack for good business - knowing how to accumulate wealth - good at feathering one's own nest |
| 生辰八字 | 生辰八字 | shēngchénbāzì | - one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch |
| 生长激素 | 生長激素 | shēngzhǎngjīsù | - growth hormone |
| 生离死别 | 生離死別 | shēnglísǐbié | - separated in life and death - to part for ever |
| 生灵涂炭 | 生靈塗炭 | shēnglíngtútàn | - people are in a terrible situation (idiom) |
| 生龙活虎 | 生龍活虎 | shēnglónghuóhǔ | - lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom) - fig. vigorous and lively |
| 由怜生爱 | 由憐生愛 | yóuliánshēngài | - to develop love for sb out of pity for them |
| 痛不欲生 | 痛不欲生 | tòngbùyùshēng | - to be so in pain as to not want to live - to be so grieved as to wish one were dead |
| 白面书生 | 白面書生 | báimiànshūshēng | - lit. pale-faced scholar (idiom); young and inexperienced person without practical experience - still wet behind the ears |
| 百弊丛生 | 百弊叢生 | bǎibìcóngshēng | - All the ill effects appear. (idiom) |
| 益胃生津 | 益胃生津 | yìwèishēngjīn | - to benefit the stomach and increase fluids (idiom) |
| 眼科医生 | 眼科醫生 | yǎnkēyīshēng | - ophthalmologist |
| 矫形医生 | 矯形醫生 | jiǎoxíngyīshēng | - orthopedic doctor |
| 研究生院 | 研究生院 | yánjiūshēngyuàn | - graduate school |
| 私生子女 | 私生子女 | sīshēngzǐnǚ | - illegitimate child - bastard - love child |
| 笔下生花 | 筆下生花 | bǐxiàshēnghuā | - to write elegantly |
| 算命先生 | 算命先生 | suànmìngxiānsheng | - fortune-teller |
| 节上生枝 | 節上生枝 | jiéshàngshēngzhī | - a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising |
| 节外生枝 | 節外生枝 | jiéwàishēngzhī | - a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising |
| 精神生活 | 精神生活 | jīngshénshēnghuó | - spiritual or moral life |
| 素昧平生 | 素昧平生 | sùmèipíngshēng | - to have never met sb before (idiom); entirely unacquainted - a complete stranger - not to know sb from Adam |
| 终生伴侣 | 終生伴侶 | zhōngshēngbànlǚ | - lifelong partner or companion |
| 绝处逢生 | 絕處逢生 | juéchǔféngshēng | - to come back from death's door (idiom); unexpected rescue from danger - fig. to recover from a seemingly impossible situation - to find a way out of a predicament |
| 统一招生 | 統一招生 | tǒngyīzhāoshēng | - national unified entrance exam |
| 维持生活 | 維持生活 | wéichíshēnghuó | - to subsist - to eke out a living - to keep body and soul together |
| 老蚌生珠 | 老蚌生珠 | lǎobàngshēngzhū | - lit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom) - fig. birthing a son at an advanced age |
| 胚胎发生 | 胚胎發生 | pēitāifāshēng | - embryogenesis |
| 脑子生锈 | 腦子生銹 | nǎozishēngxiù | - lit. brains rusty - ossified thinking |
| 自力更生 | 自力更生 | zìlìgēngshēng | - regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) - self-reliance |
| 自生自灭 | 自生自滅 | zìshēngzìmiè | - to emerge and perish on its own; to run its course (idiom) |
| 与生俱来 | 與生俱來 | yǔshēngjùlái | - inherent - innate |
| 苟且偷生 | 苟且偷生 | gǒuqiětōushēng | - to drift and live without purpose (idiom); to drag out an ignoble existence |
| 荼毒生灵 | 荼毒生靈 | túdúshēnglíng | - to torment the people (idiom) |
| 落地生根 | 落地生根 | luòdìshēnggēn | - air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum) - to put down roots |
| 苍生涂炭 | 蒼生塗炭 | cāngshēngtútàn | - the common people in a miserable state |
| 蓬筚生光 | 蓬篳生光 | péngbìshēngguāng | - Your presence brings light to my humble dwelling |
| 蓬荜生光 | 蓬蓽生光 | péngbìshēngguāng | - Your presence brings light to my humble dwelling |
| 蓬荜生辉 | 蓬蓽生輝 | péngbìshēnghuī | - Your presence brings light to my humble dwelling - see also 蓬蓽生光|蓬荜生光[peng2 bi4 sheng1 guang1] |
| 蔓生植物 | 蔓生植物 | mànshēngzhíwù | - creeper - climbing plant - twiner |
| 芸芸众生 | 蕓蕓眾生 | yúnyúnzhòngshēng | - every living being (Buddhism) - the mass of common people |
| 藤野先生 | 藤野先生 | TéngyěXiānsheng | - Yoshino-Sensei, Japanese friend of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4] |
| 虎口余生 | 虎口餘生 | hǔkǒuyúshēng | - to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom) - to have a narrow escape |
| 衍生产品 | 衍生產品 | yǎnshēngchǎnpǐn | - derivative product - derivative (in finance) |
| 卫生官员 | 衛生官員 | wèishēngguānyuán | - health official |
| 卫生棉条 | 衛生棉條 | wèishēngmiántiáo | - tampon |
| 卫生用纸 | 衛生用紙 | wèishēngyòngzhǐ | - toilet paper |
| 卫生设备 | 衛生設備 | wèishēngshèbèi | - sanitary equipment |
| 卫生防疫 | 衛生防疫 | wèishēngfángyì | - epidemic-prevention |
| 卫生陶瓷 | 衛生陶瓷 | wèishēngtáocí | - chamber pot - commode |
| 见景生情 | 見景生情 | jiànjǐngshēngqíng | - to be touched by a scene - to adapt to the situation |
| 见习医生 | 見習醫生 | jiànxíyīshēng | - medical intern |
| 亲生子女 | 親生子女 | qīnshēngzǐnǚ | - natural child |
| 亲生骨肉 | 親生骨肉 | qīnshēnggǔròu | - one's own flesh and blood |
| 触景生情 | 觸景生情 | chùjǐngshēngqíng | - scene which recalls past memories (idiom) - evocative of the past - reminiscent - to arouse deep feelings |
| 计划生育 | 計劃生育 | jìhuàshēngyù | - family planning |
| 语言产生 | 語言產生 | yǔyánchǎnshēng | - production of speech |
| 谈笑风生 | 談笑風生 | tánxiàofēngshēng | - to talk cheerfully and wittily - to joke together |
| 变生肘腋 | 變生肘腋 | biànshēngzhǒuyè | - lit. calamity in one's armpit (idiom); a major coup happening on one's doorstep - trouble or danger in one's own backyard |
| 贪生怕死 | 貪生怕死 | tānshēngpàsǐ | - greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly - clinging abjectly to life - only interested in saving one's neck |
| 账房先生 | 賬房先生 | zhàngfángxiānsheng | - bookkeeper (old) |
| 赤脚医生 | 赤腳醫生 | chìjiǎoyīshēng | - barefoot doctor - farmer with paramedical training (PRC) |
| 起死回生 | 起死回生 | qǐsǐhuíshēng | - to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery |
| 农业生技 | 農業生技 | nóngyèshēngjì | - agri-biotechnology |
| 造谣生事 | 造謠生事 | zàoyáoshēngshì | - to start rumours and create trouble |
| 遇事生风 | 遇事生風 | yùshìshēngfēng | - to stir up trouble at every opportunity (idiom) |
| 适者生存 | 適者生存 | shìzhěshēngcún | - survival of the fittest |
| 乡村医生 | 鄉村醫生 | xiāngcūnyīshēng | - village doctor (Chinese health care system) |
| 醉生梦死 | 醉生夢死 | zuìshēngmèngsǐ | - as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence - in a drunken stupor |
| 醋海生波 | 醋海生波 | cùhǎishēngbō | - lit. waves on a sea of vinegar - trouble caused by a jealous woman (idiom) |
| 重水生产 | 重水生產 | zhòngshuǐshēngchǎn | - heavy water production |
| 野生动物 | 野生動物 | yěshēngdòngwù | - wild animal |
| 野生植物 | 野生植物 | yěshēngzhíwù | - plants in the wild |
| 野生生物 | 野生生物 | yěshēngshēngwù | - wildlife - creatures in the wild - wild organism |
| 铁窗生活 | 鐵窗生活 | tiěchuāngshēnghuó | - time served in prison - prison life |
| 长生不死 | 長生不死 | chángshēngbùsǐ | - immortality |
| 长生不老 | 長生不老 | chángshēngbùlǎo | - immortality |
| 长生久视 | 長生久視 | chángshēngjiǔshì | - to grow old with unfailing eyes and ears (idiom) |
| 长生禄位 | 長生祿位 | chángshēnglùwèi | - tablet and altar honoring a great benefactor (idiom) |
| 陈方安生 | 陳方安生 | ChénFāngĀnshēng | - Anson Chan (1940-), chief secretary for administration, Hong Kong (1997-2001) |
| 险象环生 | 險象環生 | xiǎnxiànghuánshēng | - dangers spring up all around (idiom); surrounded by perils |
| 虽死犹生 | 雖死猶生 | suīsǐyóushēng | - lit. although dead, as if still alive (idiom); still with us in spirit |
| 双生兄弟 | 雙生兄弟 | shuāngshēngxiōngdì | - twin brothers |
| 风水先生 | 風水先生 | fēngshuǐxiānsheng | - fengshui master - geomancer - stock figure in folk tales, as wise adviser or as charlatan |
| 养生之道 | 養生之道 | yǎngshēngzhīdào | - the way of maintaining good health |
| 养生送死 | 養生送死 | yǎngshēngsòngsǐ | - to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter (idiom) |
| 高中学生 | 高中學生 | gāozhōngxuéshēng | - student of a senior high school |
| 高年级生 | 高年級生 | gāoniánjíshēng | - senior student |
| 鬼由心生 | 鬼由心生 | guǐyóuxīnshēng | - devils are born in the heart (idiom) - fears originate in the mind |
| 鸟不生蛋 | 鳥不生蛋 | niǎobùshēngdàn | - deserted (of a place) |
| 麻生太郎 | 麻生太郎 | MáshēngTàiláng | - ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister from 2008 |
| 齿颊生香 | 齒頰生香 | chǐjiáshēngxiāng | - lit. to feel the taste in one's mouth (idiom) - fig. to water at the mouth - to drool in anticipation |
| 龙生九子 | 龍生九子 | lóngshēngjiǔzǐ | - lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters - good and bad intermingled - It takes all sorts to make a world. |
| 人生如朝露 | 人生如朝露 | rénshēngrúzhāolù | - human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence |
| 人生路不熟 | 人生路不熟 | rénshēnglùbùshú | - everything is unfamiliar |
| 冒生命危险 | 冒生命危險 | màoshēngmìngwēixiǎn | - to risk one's life |
| 出生证明书 | 出生證明書 | chūshēngzhèngmíngshū | - birth certificate - CL:張|张[zhang1] |
| 分子生物学 | 分子生物學 | fēnzǐshēngwùxué | - molecular biology |
| 厚生劳动省 | 厚生勞動省 | HòushēngLáodòngshěng | - Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan) |
| 原核生物界 | 原核生物界 | yuánhéshēngwùjiè | - Kingdom Monera - prokaryote |
| 原生橄榄油 | 原生橄欖油 | yuánshēnggǎnlǎnyóu | - virgin olive oil |
| 古生物学家 | 古生物學家 | gǔshēngwùxuéjiā | - palaeontologist - paleobiologist |
| 单细胞生物 | 單細胞生物 | dānxìbāoshēngwù | - single-celled organism |
| 多种维生素 | 多種維生素 | duōzhǒngwéishēngsù | - multivitamin |
| 多细胞生物 | 多細胞生物 | duōxìbāoshēngwù | - multicellular life form |
| 天生的一对 | 天生的一對 | tiānshēngdeyīduì | - couple who were made for each other |
| 宇宙生成论 | 宇宙生成論 | yǔzhòushēngchénglùn | - cosmology |
| 尿生殖管道 | 尿生殖管道 | niàoshēngzhíguǎndào | - urinogenital tract |
| 形态发生素 | 形態發生素 | xíngtàifāshēngsù | - morphogen |
| 微生物学家 | 微生物學家 | wēishēngwùxuéjiā | - microbiologist |
| 应届毕业生 | 應屆畢業生 | yīngjièbìyèshēng | - student graduating in the current year - recent graduate |
| 扩大再生产 | 擴大再生產 | kuòdàzàishēngchǎn | - to expand production - to reproduce on an extended scale |
| 放射生成物 | 放射生成物 | fàngshèshēngchéngwù | - radiogenic material |
| 救生艇甲板 | 救生艇甲板 | jiùshēngtǐngjiǎbǎn | - boat deck (upper deck on which lifeboats are stored) |
| 无国界医生 | 無國界醫生 | WúguójièYīshēng | - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF charity) - Doctors Without Borders |
| 生命多样性 | 生命多樣性 | shēngmìngduōyàngxìng | - biodiversity |
| 生态友好型 | 生態友好型 | shēngtàiyǒuhǎoxíng | - eco-friendly - ecologically sustainable |
| 生态环境游 | 生態環境游 | shēngtàihuánjìngyóu | - ecotourism |
| 生活必需品 | 生活必需品 | shēnghuóbìxūpǐn | - life's necessities |
| 生物传感器 | 生物傳感器 | shēngwùchuángǎnqì | - biosensor |
| 生物分析法 | 生物分析法 | shēngwùfēnxīfǎ | - bioanalytical method |
| 生物剂量仪 | 生物劑量儀 | shēngwùjìliàngyí | - biological dosimeter |
| 生物化学家 | 生物化學家 | shēngwùhuàxuéjiā | - biochemist |
| 生物反应器 | 生物反應器 | shēngwùfǎnyìngqì | - bioreactor |
| 生物多元化 | 生物多元化 | shēngwùduōyuánhuà | - biodiversity |
| 生物多样性 | 生物多樣性 | shēngwùduōyàngxìng | - biodiversity |
| 生物大灭绝 | 生物大滅絕 | shēngwùdàmièjué | - great extinction of species |
| 生物专一性 | 生物專一性 | shēngwùzhuānyīxìng | - biospecificity |
| 生物工程学 | 生物工程學 | shēngwùgōngchéngxué | - biotechnology |
| 生物活化性 | 生物活化性 | shēngwùhuóhuàxìng | - bioactivity |
| 生物高分子 | 生物高分子 | shēngwùgāofēnzǐ | - biopolymers |
| 生产反应堆 | 生產反應堆 | shēngchǎnfǎnyìngduī | - production reactor |
| 发育生物学 | 發育生物學 | fāyùshēngwùxué | - developmental biology |
| 真后生动物 | 真後生動物 | zhēnhòushēngdòngwù | - eumetazoa - subkingdom of animals excluding sponges |
| 神经生物学 | 神經生物學 | shénjīngshēngwùxué | - neurobiology |
| 细胞生物学 | 細胞生物學 | xìbāoshēngwùxué | - cell biology |
| 缠夹二先生 | 纏夾二先生 | chánjiāèrxiānsheng | - annoying muddle-headed person who gabbles unintelligibly |
| 肿瘤病医生 | 腫瘤病醫生 | zhǒngliúbìngyīshēng | - oncologist (medicine) |
| 兰陵笑笑生 | 蘭陵笑笑生 | LánlíngXiàoxiàoshēng | - Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, pseudonym of the Ming dynasty writer and author of the Golden Lotus 金瓶梅[Jin1 ping2 mei2] |
| 非婚生子女 | 非婚生子女 | fēihūnshēngzǐnǚ | - an illegitimate child |
| 不可再生资源 | 不可再生資源 | bùkězàishēngzīyuán | - nonrenewable resource |
| 世界卫生大会 | 世界衛生大會 | ShìjièWèishēngDàhuì | - World Health Assembly |
| 世界卫生组织 | 世界衛生組織 | ShìjièWèishēngZǔzhī | - World Health Organization (WHO) |
| 信贷衍生产品 | 信貸衍生產品 | xìndàiyǎnshēngchǎnpǐn | - credit derivative (in finance) |
| 冒着生命危险 | 冒著生命危險 | màozheshēngmìngwēixiǎn | - at the risk of one's life |
| 国内生产总值 | 國內生產總值 | guónèishēngchǎnzǒngzhí | - gross domestic product (GDP) |
| 国民生产总值 | 國民生產總值 | guómínshēngchǎnzǒngzhí | - gross national product (GNP) |
| 整形外科医生 | 整形外科醫生 | zhěngxíngwàikēyīshēng | - plastic surgeon |
| 没有生育能力 | 沒有生育能力 | méiyǒushēngyùnénglì | - infertile - unable to have children |
| 独生子女政策 | 獨生子女政策 | dúshēngzǐnǚzhèngcè | - one-child policy |
| 生命在于运动 | 生命在於運動 | shēngmìngzàiyúyùndòng | - life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations) - Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle). - Life derives from physical exercise. |
| 生物化学站剂 | 生物化學站劑 | shēngwùhuàxuézhànjì | - biological-chemical warfare agent |
| 生物恐怖主义 | 生物恐怖主義 | shēngwùkǒngbùzhǔyì | - bioterrorism |
| 生物医学工程 | 生物醫學工程 | shēngwùyīxuégōngchéng | - biomedical engineering |
| 生米做成熟饭 | 生米做成熟飯 | shēngmǐzuòchéngshúfàn | - lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed - It's too late to change anything now. - also written 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭 |
| 生米煮成熟饭 | 生米煮成熟飯 | shēngmǐzhǔchéngshúfàn | - the rice is cooked - what's done is done - it's too late to change anything now (idiom) |
| 红血球生成素 | 紅血球生成素 | hóngxuèqiúshēngchéngsù | - erythropoietin (EPO) |
| 野生动植物园 | 野生動植物園 | yěshēngdòngzhíwùyuán | - wildlife park - safari park |
| 金融衍生工具 | 金融衍生工具 | jīnróngyǎnshēnggōngjù | - derivatives (finance) |
| 金融衍生产品 | 金融衍生產品 | jīnróngyǎnshēngchǎnpǐn | - financial derivative |
| 一回生，二回熟 | 一回生，二回熟 | yīhuíshēng,èrhuíshú | - lit. at first raw, later ripe (idiom); unfamiliar at first but you get used to it - strangers at first meeting, but soon friends - awkward at first but becoming skillful later - an acquired taste |
| 一次生，两次熟 | 一次生，兩次熟 | yīcìshēng,liǎngcìshú | - unfamiliar at first but you get used to it - strangers are first meeting, but soon friends - an acquired taste |
| 三江生态旅游区 | 三江生態旅遊區 | Sānjiāngshēngtàilǚyóuqū | - Sanjiang ecological tourist area in Wenchuan county 汶川县, northwest Sichuan |
| 人生何处不相逢 | 人生何處不相逢 | rénshēnghéchùbùxiāngféng | - it's a small world (idiom) |
| 再生不良性贫血 | 再生不良性貧血 | zàishēngbùliángxìngpínxuè | - aplastic anemia |
| 初生之犊不怕虎 | 初生之犢不怕虎 | chūshēngzhīdúbùpàhǔ | - see 初生之犢不畏虎|初生之犊不畏虎[chu1 sheng1 zhi1 du2 bu4 wei4 hu3] |
| 初生之犊不畏虎 | 初生之犢不畏虎 | chūshēngzhīdúbùwèihǔ | - lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom) - fig. the fearlessness of youth |
| 单词产生器模型 | 單詞產生器模型 | dāncíchǎnshēngqìmóxíng | - logogen model |
| 置之死地而后生 | 置之死地而後生 | zhìzhīsǐdìérhòushēng | - place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger - fig. to find a way out of an impasse |
| 农业生产合作社 | 農業生產合作社 | nóngyèshēngchǎnhézuòshè | - agricultural producers' cooperative |
| 野生生物基金会 | 野生生物基金會 | YěshēngShēngwùJījīnhuì | - World Wildlife Fund (WWF) |
| 原核细胞型微生物 | 原核細胞型微生物 | yuánhéxìbāoxíngwēishēngwù | - prokaryotic cell type microorganism |
| 寒武纪生命大爆发 | 寒武紀生命大爆發 | Hánwǔjìshēngmìngdàbàofā | - the Cambrian explosion |
| 恒生中资企业指数 | 恆生中資企業指數 | HéngshēngZhōngzīqǐyèzhǐshù | - Hang Seng China affiliated index |
| 脊椎指压治疗医生 | 脊椎指壓治療醫生 | jǐzhuīzhǐyāzhìliáoyīshēng | - chiropractor |
| 世界野生生物基金会 | 世界野生生物基金會 | ShìjièYěshēngShēngwùJījīnhuì | - World Wildlife Fund (WWF) |
| 人生一世，草木一春 | 人生一世，草木一春 | rénshēngyīshì,cǎomùyīchūn | - Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence |
| 人生短暂，学术无涯 | 人生短暫，學術無涯 | rénshēngduǎnzàn,xuéshùwúyá | - Life is short, learning is limitless - Ars longa, vita brevis |
| 爱国卫生运动委员会 | 愛國衛生運動委員會 | ÀiguóWèishēngYùndòngWěiyuánhuì | - Patriotic Health Committee |
| 生命不息，战斗不止 | 生命不息，戰鬥不止 | shēngmìngbùxī,zhàndòubùzhǐ | - while there is life, the fight continues (idiom); to fight to the last |
| 生于忧患，死于安乐 | 生於憂患，死於安樂 | shēngyúyōuhuàn,sǐyúānlè | - to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom) - life springs from sorrow and calamity, death comes from ease and pleasure |
| 鸟不拉屎，鸡不生蛋 | 鳥不拉屎，雞不生蛋 | niǎobùlāshǐ,jībùshēngdàn | - lit. (a place where) birds don't defecate and hens don't lay eggs (idiom) - fig. god-forsaken - remote and desolate |
| 鸟不生蛋，狗不拉屎 | 鳥不生蛋，狗不拉屎 | niǎobùshēngdàn,gǒubùlāshǐ | - lit. (a place where) birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't defecate (idiom) - fig. god-forsaken - remote and desolate |
| 科学技术是第一生产力 | 科學技術是第一生產力 | kēxuéjìshùshìdìyīshēngchǎnlì | - Science and technology is the number one productive force (from 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化|四个现代化). |
| 吾生也有涯，而知也无涯 | 吾生也有涯，而知也無涯 | wúshēngyěyǒuyá,érzhīyěwúyá | - Life is short, learning is limitless - Ars longa, vita brevis |
| 春生，夏长，秋收，冬藏 | 春生，夏長，秋收，冬藏 | chūnshēng,xiàzhǎng,qiūshōu,dōngcáng | - sow in spring, develop in summer, harvest in autumn, store in winter (idiom) |
| 野火烧不尽，春风吹又生 | 野火燒不盡，春風吹又生 | yěhuǒshāobùjìn,chūnfēngchuīyòushēng | - lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb) - fig. cannot be easily eliminated - abbr. to 野火春風|野火春风[ye3 huo3 chun1 feng1] |
| 人非生而知之者，熟能无惑 | 人非生而知之者，熟能無惑 | rénfēishēngérzhīzhīzhě,shúnéngwúhuò | - 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) |
| 普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 | 普通高等學校招生全國統一考試 | PǔtōngGāoděngXuéxiàoZhāoshēngQuánguóTǒngyīKǎoshì | - NCEE, National College Entrance Examination (college entrance exam in PRC) - usually abbr. to 高考[gao1 kao3] |
| 濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约 | 瀕危野生動植物種國際貿易公約 | BīnwēiYěshēngDòngZhíwùzhǒngGuójìMàoyìGōngyuē | - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora - CITES |
| 平生不做亏心事，半夜敲门心不惊 | 平生不做虧心事，半夜敲門心不驚 | píngshēngbùzuòkuīxīnshì,bànyèqiāoménxīnbùjīng | - He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. - Rest with a clear conscience. |
| 鱼生火，肉生痰，青菜豆腐保平安 | 魚生火，肉生痰，青菜豆腐保平安 | yúshēnghuǒ,ròushēngtán,qīngcàidòufubǎopíngān | - fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy |
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