Characters in this word

3
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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
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful, (bound form) superior; excellent, (loanword) show (as in 時裝秀|时装秀[shi2 zhuang1 xiu4]), (loanword) to show off; to flaunt (as in 秀廚藝|秀厨艺[xiu4 chu2 yi4]), (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears

Pinyin
xiù
Strokes
7
Frequency
4692 of 2500