Entry
  1. birth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc)

    trad. 生肖屬相

Also written 生肖屬相【shēng xiào shǔ xiàng】

Characters in this word

4
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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
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category, genus (taxonomy), family members, dependents, to belong to, subordinate to, affiliated with, be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals), to be, to prove to be, to constitute

Pinyin
shǔ
Traditional
Strokes
12
Frequency
11011 of 2500