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出生

chū shēng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

出生 (chū shēng) means "to be born". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 出生 means

1. to be born

The characters in 出生

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 她去年出生。
  She was born last year.
• 他出生于长崎。
  Tā chūshēng yú Chángqí.
  He was born in Nagasaki.
• 您于何时出生？
  When were you born?
• 他出生在大阪。
  He was born in Osaka.
• 他出生在非洲。
  He was born in Africa.
• 我出生在京都。
  I was born in Kyoto.

Words starting with 出生

• 出生地chū shēng dìbirthplace
• 出生入死chū shēng rù sǐfrom the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water; brave…
• 出生日期chū shēng rì qīdate of birth
• 出生地点chū shēng dì diǎnplace of birth
• 出生证chū shēng zhèngbirth certificate
• 出生证明chū shēng zhèng míngbirth certificate
• 出生证明书chū shēng zhèng míng shūbirth certificate
• 出生率chū shēng lǜbirth rate
• 出生缺陷chū shēng quē xiànbirth defect

Words containing 出生

• 新出生xīn chū shēngnewly born

Sounds the same

Read chū shēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 出声to make a sound; to speak; to cry out
• 初生newborn; nascent; primary (biology)
• 初升rising (sun, moon etc)
• 初声the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable

Where 出生 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Social relationships & family (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chū shēng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.