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生日

shēng rì

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word Measure word 个

生日 (shēng rì) means "birthday". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 生日 means

1. birthday

The characters in 生日

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 日rì(bound form) sun; day; day of the month

Example sentences

• 生日同乐！
  Shēngrì tónglè!
  Let's have a good birthday celebration!
• 生日快乐！
  Happy birthday to you!
• 谁的生日？
  Whose birthday is it?
• 我不过生日。
  I don't celebrate my birthday.
• 祝你生日快乐。
  Zhù nǐ shēngrì kuàilè.
  I wish you a happy birthday.
• 明天是我生日。
  Tomorrow is my birthday.

Words starting with 生日

• 生日卡shēng rì kǎbirthday card
• 生日快乐shēng rì kuài lèHappy birthday
• 生日贺卡shēng rì hè kǎbirthday card

Words containing 生日

• 过生日guò shēng rìto celebrate a birthday
• 出生日期chū shēng rì qīdate of birth
• 做生日zuò shēng rìto celebrate a birthday

Where 生日 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health and Weather (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shēng rì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.