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生动

shēng dòng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 生動

生动 (shēng dòng) means "vivid; lively". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 生动 means

1. (of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively

The characters in 生动

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 动dòng(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace

Example sentences

• 狐狸是野生动物。
  A fox is a wild animal.

Words containing 生动

• 后生动物hòu shēng dòng wùmetazoa; the animal kingdom
• 原生动物yuán shēng dòng wùprotozoan (bacteria)
• 真后生动物zhēn hòu shēng dòng wùeumetazoa; subkingdom of animals excluding sponges
• 野生动物yě shēng dòng wùwild animal
• 野生动植物园yě shēng dòng zhí wù yuánwildlife park; safari park
• 侧生动物cè shēng dòng wùparazoan (member of the subkingdom Parazoa)
• 濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约Bīn wēi Yě shēng Dòng Zhí wù zhǒng Guó jì Mào yì Gōng yuēConvention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; CITES

Where 生动 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Production, Ascent & Vitality (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shēng dòng correctly.
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