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Exact character matches appear first. Pinyin matches whole syllables in headword pronunciations. Common exact readings come before common compounds, followed by less frequent or restricted readings. Direct English meanings rank ahead of mentions in longer definitions.

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.

寄生者jì shēng zhě

parasite (human)

实生苗shí shēng miáo

seedling

写生xiě shēng

to sketch from nature / to do a still life drawing

寸草不生cùn cǎo bù shēng

(idiom) barren / devoid of vegetation

寻事生非xún shì shēng fēi

to look for trouble

对生duì shēng

(botany) opposite leaf arrangement / paired leaf arrangement

小本生意xiǎo běn shēng yi

small business

小生产xiǎo shēng chǎn

small-scale production

尖子生jiān zi shēng

top student

工读生gōng dú shēng

student who also works part-time / (old) reform-school student

差生chà shēng

weak student

差生文具多chà shēng wén jù duō

(neologism, attested by 2021) underachieving students tend to buy lots of stationery / (fig.) all the gear and no idea

平生不做亏心事,半夜敲门心不惊píng shēng bù zuò kuī xīn shì , bàn yè qiāo mén xīn bù jīng

He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.

底栖生物dǐ qī shēng wù

benthic organism

座生水母zuò shēng shuǐ mǔ

sessile medusa / sea anemone

形态发生素xíng tài fā shēng sù

morphogen

往生wǎng shēng

to be reborn / to live in paradise (Buddhism) / to die / (after) one's death

后半生hòu bàn shēng

latter half of one's life

后生动物hòu shēng dòng wù

metazoa / the animal kingdom

后生可畏hòu shēng kě wèi

the young will be redoubtable in the years to come (idiom) / the younger generations will surpass us in time

得意门生dé yì mén shēng

favorite pupil

复读生fù dú shēng

student who repeats (a course, grade etc) at school

微生物学wēi shēng wù xué

microbiology

微生物学家wēi shēng wù xué jiā

microbiologist

忍辱偷生rěn rǔ tōu shēng

to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom)

怎生zěn shēng

how / why

怕生pà shēng

fear of strangers / to be afraid of strangers (of small children)

急中生智jí zhōng shēng zhì

quick witted in an emergency / able to react resourcefully

怯生qiè shēng

shy

怯生生qiè shēng shēng

shy

情急智生qíng jí zhì shēng

inspiration in a moment of desperation (idiom) / also written 情急之下

感生gǎn shēng

(mythology) to conceive or give birth by non-sexual or divine means / (physics) induced (magnetic field, current etc)

慢生活màn shēng huó

slow living

慷慨捐生kāng kǎi juān shēng

sacrificing one's life generously (idiom) / to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause

应届生yīng jiè shēng

student graduating in the current academic year / current-year graduate / fresh graduate

应届毕业生yīng jiè bì yè shēng

student graduating in the current year / recent graduate

应运而生yìng yùn ér shēng

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róng mǎ shēng yá

army life (idiom) / the experience of war

所生suǒ shēng

parents (father and mother)

打扫卫生dǎ sǎo wèi shēng

to do the cleaning / to clean up

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