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生育

shēng yù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

生育 (shēng yù) means "to bear; to give birth; to grow". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 生育 means

1. to give birth to; to bear
2. fertility

The characters in 生育

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 育yùto have children; to raise or bring up; to educate

Example sentences

• 帕查玛玛是安地斯山脉土着居民敬仰的大地和生育女神。
  Pachamama is a goddess of earth and fertility revered by the indigenous peoples of the Andes.

Words starting with 生育

• 生育能力shēng yù néng lìfertility; ability to have children
• 生育率shēng yù lǜbirth rate

Words containing 生育

• 计划生育jì huà shēng yùfamily planning

Sounds the same

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

• 声誉reputation; fame

Where 生育 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shēng yù correctly.
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