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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.

卫生陶瓷wèi shēng táo cí

chamber pot / commode

卫生胡wèi shēng hú

toothbrush moustache / Hitler moustache

见景生情jiàn jǐng shēng qíng

to be touched by a scene / to adapt to the situation

见习生jiàn xí shēng

trainee / probationer

见习医生jiàn xí yī shēng

medical intern

亲生子女qīn shēng zǐ nǚ

natural child

亲生骨肉qīn shēng gǔ ròu

one's own flesh and blood

触景生情chù jǐng shēng qíng

scene which recalls past memories (idiom) / evocative of the past / reminiscent / to arouse deep feelings

计生jì shēng

planned childbirth / birth control / family planning / abbr. for 計劃生育|计划生育

讨生活tǎo shēng huó

to eke out a living / to live from hand to mouth / to drift aimlessly

认生rèn shēng

shy with strangers

调干生diào gàn shēng

worker chosen to become a cadre and sent to complete his schooling

诸生zhū shēng

Imperial scholar from the Ming Dynasty onwards

护生hù shēng

nursing student / (Buddhism) to preserve the lives of all living beings

变生肘腋biàn shēng zhǒu yè

lit. calamity in one's armpit (idiom) / a major coup happening on one's doorstep / trouble or danger in one's own backyard

贡生gòng shēng

candidate for the Imperial Examination proposed by a tributary state

贪生怕死tān shēng pà sǐ

greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom) / craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck

贴生tiē shēng

male supporting actor in a Chinese opera

资优生zī yōu shēng

brilliant student

账房先生zhàng fáng xiān sheng

bookkeeper (old)

赘生zhuì shēng

excrescence / abnormal superfluous growth

赤脚医生chì jiǎo yī shēng

barefoot doctor / farmer with paramedical training (PRC)

超生chāo shēng

(Buddhism) to be reincarnated / (fig.) to be lenient / to spare sb / to have more children than allowed under family planning policy

距离产生美jù lí chǎn shēng měi

absence makes the heart grow fonder

跳级生tiào jí shēng

student who jumps a year

轻生qīng shēng

to commit suicide / to take one's own life

转学生zhuǎn xué sheng

transfer student

转生zhuǎn shēng

reincarnation (Buddhism)

农业生技nóng yè shēng jì

(Tw) agricultural biotechnology / agritech

农业生产合作社nóng yè shēng chǎn hé zuò shè

agricultural producers' cooperative

逆生长nì shēng zhǎng

to seem to grow younger / to regain one's youthful looks

造谣生事zào yáo shēng shì

to start rumours and create trouble

遇事生风yù shì shēng fēng

to stir up trouble at every opportunity (idiom)

过生guò shēng

to celebrate a birthday

过生日guò shēng rì

to celebrate a birthday

乡村医生xiāng cūn yī shēng

village doctor (Chinese health care system)

醉生梦死zuì shēng mèng sǐ

as if drunk or entranced (idiom) / leading a befuddled existence / in a drunken stupor

醋海生波cù hǎi shēng bō

lit. waves on a sea of vinegar / trouble caused by a jealous woman (idiom)

野火烧不尽,春风吹又生yě huǒ shāo bù jìn , chūn fēng chuī yòu shēng

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[yě huǒ chūn fēng]

野生动植物园yě shēng dòng zhí wù yuán

wildlife park / safari park

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