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诞生

dàn shēng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 誕生

诞生 (dàn shēng) means "to be born". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 诞生 means

1. to be born

The characters in 诞生

• 诞dànbirth; birthday; brag
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 这个传统在中国诞生了。
  Zhège chuántǒng zài Zhōngguó dànshēng le.
  This tradition originates from China.
• 我们是为了死亡而诞生的。
  Wǒmen shì wèile sǐwáng ér dànshēng de.
  We were born to die.
• 我是1968年在东京诞生的。
  I was born in Tokyo in 1968.
• 互联网的广泛应用使新一代的年轻人诞生了。
  Hùliánwǎng de guǎngfàn yìngyòng shǐ xīnyīdài de niánqīngrén dànshēng le.
  The proliferation of Internet usage has given birth to a new generation of young people.
• 国际语言伊多语于 1907 年诞生于法国巴黎。
  The international language Ido was born in 1907 in Paris, France.
• 卫塞节是佛教的一个节日，纪念佛陀的诞生、成道和涅槃。
  Wèi sāi jiē shì Fójiào de yī gè jiérì, jìniàn Fótuó de dànshēng, chéngdào hé nièpán.
  Vesak is a Buddhist holiday which celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha.

Where 诞生 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dài–tán (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 dàn shēng correctly.
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