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滋生

zī shēng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

滋生 (zī shēng) means "to breed; to flourish; to cause". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 滋生 means

1. to breed
2. to flourish
3. to cause
4. to provoke
5. to create

The characters in 滋生

• 滋zīto grow; to nourish; to increase
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Sounds the same

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

• 孳生to breed; to multiply

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