outstanding student; to give birth to healthy babies (typically involving prenatal screening and the abortion of offspring with a severe abnormality); to enhance the genetic quality of a population; eugenics
trad. 優生
Also written 優生【yōu shēng】
Characters in this word
2优
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
excellent, superior
- Pinyin
- yōu
- Traditional
- 優
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 19942 of 2500
生
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
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[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1196 of 2500