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甥

shēng

Character

What 甥 means

1. bound formsister's son; nephew

Example sentences

• 我有两个外甥女。
  Wǒ yǒu liǎng gè wàishengnǚ.
  I have two nieces.

Words starting with 甥

• 甥女shēng nǚsister's daughter; niece

Words containing 甥

• 外甥wài shēngsister's son; wife's sibling's son
• 外甥女wài sheng nǚsister's daughter; wife's sibling's daughter
• 外甥女婿wài sheng nǚ xusister's daughter's husband
• 外甥媳妇wài sheng xí fùsister's son's wife

Characters that look like 甥

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 频pínfrequency; frequently; repetitious
• 锁suǒto lock; to lock up; a lock
• 锡xītin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer
• 锈xiùto rust
• 锦jǐnbrocade; embroidered work; bright
• 锑tīantimony (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read shēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 生to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 声sound; voice; tone
• 升to ascend; to rise; to promote; to elevate; liter
• 牲domestic animal; sacrificial animal
• 笙sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes
• 昇(used as a surname and in given names)
• 泩rising of water
• 鼪stoat; weasel
• 呏gallon; quart
• 曻variant of 升