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生 (saang1) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

生 (saang1, shēng) — to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student; living; lifetime; birth; living beings; a male actor; to happen; to occur; to produce; to create; crude; alive; strange; unfamiliar; keenly in; abruptly; rudely; by force; rudely; unskilled; used as a suffix to adverbs; a surname; Mr

Classifier

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Usage

Level

beyond HSK

Related words

• 生乾精 (saang1 gon1 zing1) — (adjective) very dry and no juice
• 生事 (sang1 si6) — (verb) make or create troubles
• 生人勿近 (saang1 jan4 mat6 gan6) — warning for the living to stay away as dangerous or deadly
• 生人唔生膽 (saang1 jan4 m4 sang1 daam2) — (slang) describes someone who is chicken-hearted; timid; fearful; gutless; spin…
• 生人霸死地 (saang1 jan4 baa3 sei2 dei6) — hogging of benefits to oneself; unwilling to share profits (slang)
• 生仔冇屎忽 (sang1 zai2 mou5 si2 fat1) — cursing of one to give birth to a child without buttock (derogatory)

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