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Frequency data from Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare.

人生何处不相逢rén shēng hé chù bù xiāng féng

it's a small world (idiom)

人生地不熟rén shēng dì bù shú

to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom) / in an unfamiliar place without friends or family

人生如梦rén shēng rú mèng

life is but a dream (idiom)

人生如朝露rén shēng rú zhāo lù

human life as the morning dew (idiom) / fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence

人生导师rén shēng dǎo shī

life mentor

人生朝露rén shēng zhāo lù

human life as the morning dew (idiom) / fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence

人生路不熟rén shēng lù bù shú

everything is unfamiliar

人非生而知之者，孰能无惑rén fēi shēng ér zhī zhī zhě , shú néng wú huò

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[Hán Yù])

仿生学fǎng shēng xué

bionics / bionicist

休养生息xiū yǎng shēng xī

to recover / to recuperate

伴生bàn shēng

to occur together with / associated with

伴生气bàn shēng qì

associated gas (petrochemical engineering)

信贷衍生产品xìn dài yǎn shēng chǎn pǐn

credit derivative (in finance)

借腹生子jiè fù shēng zǐ

surrogate pregnancy

值日生zhí rì shēng

student on duty / prefect

偏利共生piān lì gòng shēng

(biology) to have a commensal relationship with (another organism)

做生意zuò shēng yì

to do business

做生活zuò shēng huó

to work / to do manual labor

侧生动物cè shēng dòng wù

parazoan (member of the subkingdom Parazoa)

催生cuī shēng

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

催生婆cuī shēng pó

midwife who induces labor

催生素cuī shēng sù

oxytocin

催生者cuī shēng zhě

driving force behind sth

侨生qiáo shēng

student of overseas Chinese descent who returns to mainland China or Taiwan to pursue their studies (abbr. for 華僑學生|华侨学生[Huá qiáo xué sheng])

儒生rú shēng

Confucian scholar (old)

优生yōu shēng

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

优生学yōu shēng xué

eugenics

入伍生rù wǔ shēng

newly enlisted officer student / cadet

内科医生nèi kē yī shēng

medical doctor / physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科醫生|外科医生[wài kē yī shēng]