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天生

tiān shēng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

天生 (tiān shēng) means "nature; disposition; innate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 天生 means

1. nature
2. disposition
3. innate
4. natural

The characters in 天生

• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 她天生体弱。
  Tā tiānshēng tǐruò.
  She is weak by nature.
• 我昨天生病了。
  I was ill yesterday.

Words starting with 天生

• 天生丽质tiān shēng lì zhì(idiom) to be naturally beautiful; to be born beautiful
• 天生一对tiān shēng yī duìa match made in heaven; a perfect couple
• 天生的一对tiān shēng de yī duìcouple who were made for each other

Where 天生 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tiǎn–tǐ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tiān shēng correctly.
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