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生存

shēng cún

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

生存 (shēng cún) means "to exist". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 生存 means

1. to exist
2. to survive

The characters in 生存

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 存cúnto exist; to deposit; to store

Example sentences

• 衣食住是生存的基础。
  Yīshí zhù shì shēngcún de jīchǔ.
  Food, clothing and shelter are the foundations of survival.
• 鱼离开水就无法生存。
  Fish cannot live out of water.
• 汤姆明白生存的代价。
  Tom understands what it takes to survive.
• 没有水，我们无法生存。
  Without water, we cannot exist.
• 没有梦想，人不能生存。
  Man can't live without dreams.
• 人类不能在火星上生存。
  Humans cannot survive on Mars.

Words starting with 生存

• 生存环境shēng cún huán jìnghabitat; living environment
• 生存农业shēng cún nóng yèsubsistence farming; subsistence agriculture

Words containing 生存

• 适者生存shì zhě shēng cúnsurvival of the fittest

Where 生存 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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