生 shēng

1. shēng verb to be born; to give birth
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature
   Notes: In the sense of 出生 or 生育, an intransitive verb (Kroll 2015 '生' 2; ABC 'shēng' v 1; Ci Yuan '生' 2)
2. shēng verb to live
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A verb in literary Chinese and a bound morpheme in modern Chinese in the sense of 生活 (Kroll 2015 '生' 1; ABC 'shēng' sv 1; Ci Yuan '生' 3; GHC '生' 5)
3. shēng adjective raw
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
   Notes: In the sense of 生的 (Kroll 2015 '生' 3; ABC 'shēng' sv 3; Ci Yuan '生' 7; GHC '生' 6)
4. shēng noun a student
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A bound form in modern Chinese, as in 学生 (Kroll 2015 '生' 5; ABC 'shēng' bf 3; GHC '生' 9)
5. shēng noun life
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A bound form in modern Chinese, as in 生活 (Kroll 2015 '生' 1b; ABC 'shēng' bf 1; Ci Yuan '生' 4, 5)
6. shēng verb to produce; to give rise
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 生产 (Kroll 2015 '生' 2a; ABC 'shēng' v 3; GHC '生' 1). For example, 天生德於予 'Heaven produced the virtue that is in me.' (Lunyu 7:22)
7. shēng adjective alive
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 活的 (Kroll 2015 '生' 1; ABC 'shēng' sv 1; Ci Yuan '生' 3; GHC '生' 3)
8. shēng adjective a lifetime
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 一生or 一辈子 (Kroll 2015 '生' 1b; Ci Yuan '生' 6)
9. shēng verb to initiate; to become
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 生病 or 生气
10. shēng verb to grow
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 生长 (Ci Yuan '生' 1; ABC 'shēng' v 2; GHC '生' 1)
11. shēng adjective unfamiliar
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 生疏, as in new vocabulary 生词 (Kroll 2015 '生'' 3a; Ci Yuan '生' 7; GHC '生' 7)
12. shēng adjective not experienced
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in a new hand 生手 (Kroll 2015 '生'' 3a; GHC '生' 6)
13. shēng adjective hard; stiff; strong
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 硬 (ABC 'shēng' sv 6; GHC '生' 12)
14. shēng adverb very; extremely
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 什 or 甚 (ABC 'shēng' adv; Ci Yuan '生' 13; GHC '生' 11)
15. shēng noun having academic or professional knowledge
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 医生 'doctor', often used in this sense as a courtesy title for a scholar (Kroll 2015 '生' 5; Ci Yuan '生' 11; GHC '生' 8)
16. shēng noun a male role in traditional theatre
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Drama
    Notes: As in 小生 'young boy' or 老生 'old man' (ABC 'shēng' bf 4; Ci Yuan '生' 12; GHC '生' 10)
17. shēng noun gender
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 男生 'male' or 女生 'female' (GHC '生' 16)
18. shēng verb to develop; to grow
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'shēng' v 2)
19. shēng verb to set up
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 安装 (ABC 'shēng' v 4).
20. shēng noun a prostitute
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 妓女.
21. shēng noun a captive
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 俘虏.
22. shēng noun a gentleman
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 生 has the same meaning as 先生.
23. shēng noun Kangxi radical 100
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
    Notes: Born (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
24. shēng adjective unripe
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
    Notes: (ABC 'shēng' sv 2; Ci Yuan '生' 7)
25. shēng noun nature
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 本性 (Ci Yuan '生' 9; GHC '生' 14)
26. shēng verb to inherit; to succeed
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 继承 (Ci Yuan '生' 10)
27. shēng noun destiny
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 生命 (GHC '生' 4)
28. shēng noun birth
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: jāti, Pali: jāti, Japanese: shō, Tibetan: skye ba (BCSD '生', p. 832; BL 'jāti', p. 382; FGDB '生'; Mahāvyutpatti 'jātiḥ'; MW 'jāti'; SH '生', p. 195)

Contained in

• 生忍法忍无生忍 您好我好大家好(生忍法忍無生忍 您好我好大家好) Ordinary, Dharma, and Non-Arising Dharmas Tolerance; You, I, and everyone is good.
• 合十人生 A Life of Joined Palms
• 求生 seeking rebirth
• 利生 to benefit living beings
• 要争气，不要生气(要爭氣，不要生氣) Get motivated, don't get agitated
• 因何能生果 how could a cause produce an effect?
• 豁达的人生(豁達的人生) a broad and open life
• 人生本天 Narayana deva
• 严土熟生(嚴土熟生) majestic [pure] land and well-attained sentient beings
• 活水人生　清凉自在(活水人生　清涼自在) A Life Like Free-Flowing Water; Remain Calm and at Perfect Ease
• 生死轮迴，永无休息(生死輪迴，永無休息) the cycle of birth and death never ends
• 令众生(令眾生) lead sentient beings
• 已生善 good that has already been produced
• 刹那生灭(剎那生滅) to arise or cease within a ksana
• 共舍生定(共捨生定) collective abandonment of sensation and perception arising from samadhi
• 虎啸生风(虎嘯生風) tiger howls with the rise of winds
• 心口芳香　生命放光 Fragrant Thoughts and Words; Let Your Life Shine
• 十二因生 the twelve nidanas; the twelve nidānas; the twelve causes and conditions
• 新生活七诫运动(新生活七誡運動) Seven Admonitions Campaign for a New Life
• 顺生受业(順生受業) karma to be experienced in the next lifetime
• 九品往生阿弥陀经(九品往生阿彌陀經) Nine Grades of Rebirth Amitabha Sutra
• 轮迴转生(輪迴轉生) Saṃsāra; cycle of life and death
• 日生佛 Adityasambhava Buddha; Sun Birth Buddha
• 大胜生主(大勝生主) Mahaprajapati
• 名位谦让为先 生活俭朴为重 处众服务为本 心胸宽广为要(名位謙讓為先 生活儉樸為重 處眾服務為本 心胸寬廣為要) Humility comes before fame. Diligence and frugality are the core of life. Service is the basis of fellowship. Magnanimity is the key to a peaceful mind.

Also contained in

陌生 、 生造 、 境由心生 、 生理 、 长生库 、 原生质 、 生效 、 了却此生 、 造谣生事 、 寄生虫 、 汎爱群生 、 民不聊生 、 生殖系统 、 调干生 、 单词产生器模型 、 孪生 、 生还者 、 老生常谈 、 分子生物学 、 国内生产总值 、 生煎包 、 白面书生 、 忍垢偷生 、 花生 、 生吞活剥 、 返生

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Truncated for common words

• Scroll 3 Commentary on the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā 中觀論疏 — count: 490
• Scroll 5 Commentary on the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā 中觀論疏 — count: 457
• Scroll 9 Dasheng Guang Bai Lun Shi Lun 大乘廣百論釋論 — count: 435
• Scroll 8 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 418
• Scroll 3 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 413
• Scroll 5 The Great Calming and Contemplation (Mohe Zhi Guan) 摩訶止觀 — count: 375 , has English translation
• Scroll 5 Zhi Guan Fu Xing Chuan Hong Jue 止觀輔行傳弘決 — count: 369
• Scroll 7 Da Ban Niepan Jing Yi Ji 大般涅槃經義記 — count: 352
• Scroll 2 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 351
• Scroll 4 Dasheng Yi Zhang 大乘義章 — count: 339

Collocations

• 生时 (生時) 毗婆尸菩薩當其生時 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 15
• 七生 (七生) 往來七生 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 5
• 菩萨生 (菩薩生) 毗婆尸菩薩生時 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
• 生处 (生處) 我所生處 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 4
• 生恋慕 (生戀慕) 生戀慕心 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 4 — count: 4
• 生二 (生二) 何等生二足尊 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 4 — count: 4
• 生忉利天 (生忉利天) 生忉利天 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 3
• 生多 (生多) 生多財寶 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 3
• 毛生 (毛生) 一一孔一毛生 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 3
• 不复生 (不復生) 是時地肥遂不復生 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 6 — count: 3