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生意

shēng yì

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

生意 (shēng yì) means "life force; vitality; business". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 生意 means

1. life force
2. vitality

Other readings

生意 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• shēng yibusiness

The characters in 生意

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 意yì(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…

Example sentences

• 生意蒸蒸日上
  Shēngyi zhēngzhēngrìshàng
  Business is booming in Algeria.
• 生意怎幺样？
  How's business?
• 生意真难做!
  Man is business difficult!
• 他的生意失败了。
  He failed in business.

Words starting with 生意

• 生意经shēng yi jīngknack of doing business; business sense
• 生意兴隆shēng yì xīng lóngthriving and prosperous business or trade
• 生意盎然shēng yì àng ránsee 生机盎然

Words containing 生意

• 做生意zuò shēng yìto do business
• 拉生意lā shēng yìto tout; to solicit customers
• 小本生意xiǎo běn shēng yismall business
• 求生意志qiú shēng yì zhìwill to live; will to survive
• 抢生意qiǎng shēng yito undercut competitors; to hustle; to compete for business
• 招揽生意zhāo lǎn shēng yito advertise; to solicit business

Go deeper

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