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土生土长

tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 土生土長

土生土长 (tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng) means "locally born and bred; indigenous; home-grown". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 土生土长 means

1. idiom(of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous

The characters in 土生土长

• 土tǔearth; dust; clay
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 土tǔearth; dust; clay
• 长chánglong; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte

Example sentences

• 熊猫在四川省土生土长，不在任何其他省份的野外生活。
  Xióngmāo zài Sìchuān Shěng tǔshēngtǔzhǎng, bù zài rènhé qítā shěngfèn de yěwài shēnghuó.
  The panda is indigenous to Sichuan Province and does not live in the wild in any other places.

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