生 物 降 解

shēng wù jiàng jiědictionary entry

biodegradation

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Original source entry:

生物降解生物降解 [sheng1 wu4 jiang4 jie3] /biodegradation/

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生
shēng
to grow / to give birth / to produce / to be born / to arise / to occur / to light (a fire) / to live / to be alive / life / raw / uncooked / unprocessed / unfamiliar / strange / (bound form) student / person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life / lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very / intensely (as in 生疼[shēng téng]) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[shēng lā yìng zhuài])
物
wù
(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself / people other than oneself
降
jiàng
to drop / to fall / to come down / to descend
xiáng
to surrender / to capitulate / to subdue / to conquer / to tame
解
jiě
to divide / to break up / to split / to separate / to dissolve / to solve / to melt / to remove / to untie / to loosen / to open / to emancipate / to explain / to understand / to know / a solution / a dissection
jiè
to transport under guard
xiè
acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old)
Xiè
surname Xie

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