Entry
  1. to be reborn; to regenerate; to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person); recycling; regeneration

Characters in this word

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again; once more; re-, further; beyond this point of time, (before an adjective) more, then (after sth, and not until then), no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis), (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc), (literary) to reappear; to reoccur

Pinyin
zài
Strokes
6
Frequency
87 of 2500
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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