生 (saang1 sang1 | sheng1) : born; grow; life; alive; unripe

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生

saang1 sang1

sheng1

[1] [v] give birth to; be born; exist
[2] [v] grow; breed; beget; cause
[3] [n] life; lifetime; livelihood
[4] [n] student; scholar; practitioner
[5] [adj] alive; living; lively
[6] [adj] unripe; uncooked; raw
[7] [adj] unfamiliar; strange; unacquainted
[8] [adj] unskilled; crude; stiff
[9] [n] male role in traditional Chinese opera
[10] [粵] Mr; mister (abbreviation for 先生)

Jyutping sang1 is literary reading; saang1 is colloquial. Please refer to [www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 5

Level: 1

Radical: 生 (#100)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

生

Don't confuse with:
午牛

This word has been viewed 41083 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 24th Jun 2014 06:09

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活生生 wut1 saang1 saang1 huo2 sheng1sheng1 = alive

竹生 zuk1 sang1 zhu2 sheng1 = White fungus Puccinia bambusicol

生菜 saang1 coi3 sheng1 cai4 = lettuce

人生 jan4 sang1 ren2 sheng1 = life

大學生 daai6 hok6 saang1 da4 xue2 sheng5 = university student

生日 saang1 jat6 sheng1 ri4 = birthday

花生 faa1 sang1 hua1 sheng1 = peanut

先生 sin1 saang1 xian1 sheng5 = mister, Mr.; husband; teacher

學生 hok6 saang1 xue2 sheng5 = student; pupil

一生 jat1 sang1 yi1 sheng1 = lifetime, lifespan, a whole life
See all 562 compounds (CantoDict reports 600 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 52 examples containing 生

祝你生日快樂！
Wishing you a Happy Birthday!

你鍾唔鍾意食花生㗎？粵
Do you like to eat peanuts?

王先生後日就返啦。粵
Mr. Wong will be coming back the day after tomorrow.

先生，請問幾位？粵
Sir, how many people?

你想學做生意？
So you want to be a businessman?
[Lit. you want study do business? More direct translation: You want to study how to do business? This is a good example of a serial verb construction. There are three in a row here (想學做) but more are possible.]

我一生一世都會愛你。
I'll love you for the rest of my life.

生果又甜又有營養。粵
Fruits are sweet and nutritious.
[Please note that "有" is missing from the audio by mistake.]

王先生是我爸爸的好朋友。國
Mr. Wong is a good friend of my father.

係唔係用花生油煮嘅? 粵
Is this cooked in peanut oil?

我唔食得花生粵
I cannot eat peanuts.

我對花生敏感粵
I am allergic to peanuts

先生話聽日唔使返學。粵
The teacher said we don't need to attend class tomorrow.

生性啲啦! 粵
Behave yourself!

生果對健康有益
Fresh fruit is good for your health

以前呢度啲生意重做得下嘅，但而家就喎呵囉粵
Doing business here used to be all right, but now, it's over.

一日一蘋果，醫生遠離我。
An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.

先生，請問有啲咩可以幫到你嘅呢？粵
Sir, how can I help you?

佢打咗電話畀醫生粵
She has phoned the doctor.
[咗 is a marker for perfective aspect. ]

你要改你嘅學生嘅功課粵
You need to mark your students' homework.
[Lit. You need change [in the sense of correct] your student homework.]

有個叫平仔嘅學生起身粵
A student called Ping stood up.
[Lit. have [counter] call Ping-boy [possessive particle] student stand-up]

就算喺日常生活中﹐都需要一啲科學常識。粵
We need some scientific knowledge even in dealing with our daily life.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?3,118014]

個個學生都擔心自己嘅成績。粵
Every student is worried about his grades.
[Reduplicated classifiers (like 個個 here) can be used as a subject, but not as an object. We cannot say, for instance, 通知個個 for "to tell everyone". ]

李生結咗婚﹐有兩個仔﹐重係讀緊書。粵
Mr Lee is married with two sons, who are still in school.
[There is no relative pronoun (such as "who") in Cantonese. The change of subject is self-evident from the context.]

王先生要經廣州前往桂林。
Mr Wong wants to go to Guilin via Guangzhou.

生產效率大大提高。
Productivity has risen greatly.

食咗腐敗嘅食物容易生病。粵
You are liable to get sick by eating putrid food.

醫生，我要不要化驗血？國
Doctor, do I need to have a blood test?

點解佢冇女朋友？生得唔靚仔囉! 粵
Why doesn't he have a girlfriend? Because he's not handsome, of course!

請注意，地鐵車廂內嚴禁飲食，請保持車廂清潔衛生，多謝合作
Please remember. No eating or drinking on MTR trains. Help us keep them fresh, clean and tidy. Thank you!
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,132183 It's supposed to be a MTR announcement, but the wordings are not exactly the same.]

請番嚟嘅所謂專家, 其實係個學生粵
The so-called expert they invited has turned out to be a student.

所謂專家原來係個學生粵
The so-called expert turned out to be a student.

間公司專門生產電腦。粵
The company specializes in producing computers.

還帶著睡眼惺忪的小學生在路旁等校車。國
The sleepy-eyed students are waiting for the school bus by the road.

老細畀啲工人激到佢七竅生煙粵
Boss got really pissed off by the workers.

董先生偷拍女朋友的十來歲的女兒洗澡國
Mr. Dong is taking pictures of his girlfriend's teenage daughter bathing without her knowledge.

與其苟且偷生不如死
It is better to die than to drag on with such an ignoble existence.

他生性好奇, 甚麼事情都要研究一番。國
He is born curious and likes to look into every single thing.

天真爛漫的孩子們過著無憂無慮的生活
Innocent children, unaffected by the surroundings, live without a worry in the world.

快要達成協議時對方節外生枝國
An agreement was about to be reached when the other side raised new issues

一頭乳牛一天可以生產約八加侖牛奶
One dairy cattle can produce about 8 gallons of milk in one day

生果係一種有益健康嘅食物粵
Fresh fruit is a kind of food that's beneficial to health.

唔好以為佢地只係學生粵 ?!
Don't think they're just students!

唔好偷𥊙人哋沖涼，如果唔係會生眼挑針！粵 ?!
Don't spy on people when they are showering, otherwise you'll get a stye!
[There is an old wives' tale linking styes to spying on people when they are bathing.]

我啱啱睇嗰套卡通好似好𠵇𠺫，唔知發生咩事粵
The anime I was watching just now seemed strange, I'm not quite sure what was going on.
[Lit. I just-now see that [counter] anime seem very strange, not-know happen what-matter]

呢盤生意係蝕本生意嚟㗎粵
This venture... is loss-making.
[Lit. this [counter] business is loss-making business [explanatory particle]]

你想學做生意呢，第一樣嘢就係要學奸粵
If you wanna be a businessman, the first thing you gotta learn is how to play dirty.
[Lit. you want study do business, number one [counter] thing is-exactly study wickedness]

個醫生畀咗啲止癢藥畀我搽蚊𧕴粵
The doctor gave me some cream to put on my mosquito bites.
[Lit. [counter] doctor give-already [plural counter] stop-itch-cream give me spread insect bite]

嗰個學生唔見咗部手機，手機重係新嘅添。粵
That student has lost his mobile phone, and a new one at that.
[重係...添 = at that]

講起嚟﹐我都識何先生。粵
Now you come to mention it, I know Mr Ho as well.
[起嚟 is a verb complement which means 'once you start ...'.]

我睇都係買屋比較揸拿，好過投資喺啲小生意上粵
I am of the view that buying property has more assurance, better than investing in small businesses.

旅遊業者不須擔心少了某種噱頭十足的用語而流失生意國
The travel industry should not be unduly worried about businesses badly affected due to the cessation in the use of gimmicky linguistics of their promotions.

人生最困擾之事莫過於喪失了人生目標。
The biggest perplexity in life is losing the goal of life.

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