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民生

mín shēng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

民生 (mín shēng) means "people's livelihood; people's welfare". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 民生 means

1. people's livelihood
2. people's welfare

The characters in 民生

• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 第三季国民生产总值较上一季成长了1％。
  Dì sān jì guómínshēngchǎnzǒngzhí jiào shàng yī jì chéngzhǎng le 1％.
  The third quarter GNP growth was 1% over the preceding quarter.

Words starting with 民生

• 民生主义mín shēng zhǔ yìprinciple of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孙中山 Three Principles of…
• 民生凋敝mín shēng diāo bìthe people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom)…

Words containing 民生

• 国民生产总值guó mín shēng chǎn zǒng zhígross national product (GNP)
• 国民生产毛额guó mín shēng chǎn máo é(Taiwan) gross national product; GNP

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