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丧生

sàng shēng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 喪生

丧生 (sàng shēng) means "to die; to lose one's life". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 丧生 means

1. to die
2. to lose one's life

The characters in 丧生

• 丧sàngto lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc)…
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 她儿子在车祸中丧生。
  Tā érzi zài chēhuò zhōng sàngshēng.
  Her son was killed in the accident.
• 汤姆在一场意外中丧生。
  Tāngmǔ zài yī chǎng yìwài zhōng sàngshēng.
  Tom died in an accident.
• 这场爆炸中有三人丧生。
  Three people were killed in the explosion.
• 数十人在伦敦火车事故中丧生。
  Dozens of people were killed in a train accident in London.
• 我哥哥在一次交通意外中丧生了。
  Wǒ gēge zài yīcì jiāotōngyìwài zhōng sàngshēng le.
  My brother was killed in a traffic accident.

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read sàng shēng correctly.
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