生人

Chinese

		to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw	man; person; people
simp. and trad. (生人)		生	人
anagram		人生

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēngrén

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ ㄖㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saang¹ jan⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sâng-ngìn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēngrén
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shengrén
    • Wade–Giles: shêng¹-jên²
    • Yale: shēng-rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shengren
    • Palladius: шэнжэнь (šɛnžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saang¹ jan⁴
    • Yale: sāang yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saang¹ jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sang¹ yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sâng-ngìn
    • Hakka Romanization System: sang´ nginˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sang¹ ngin²
    • Sinological IPA: /saŋ²⁴ ŋin¹¹/

Verb

生人

1. (of a person) to be born

Synonyms

• 出世 (chūshì) (literary or dialectal)
• 出生 (chūshēng)
• 落地 (figurative)
• 誕生／诞生 (dànshēng) (of a person)
• 降世 (jiàngshì) (especially of an important figure)
• 降生 (jiàngshēng) (especially of an important figure)

 

Noun

生人

1. stranger
2. (literary) living person

Synonyms

• (stranger):

• 外人 (wàirén)
• 生份人 (Hakka, Hokkien)
• 生保人 (Cantonese)
• 生頭人／生头人 (Ningbonese)
• 過路人／过路人 (guòlùrén) (figurative)
• 陌生人 (mòshēngrén)
• 陌路 (mòlù) (literary)

 

Derived terms

• 生人勿近 (shēngrénwùjìn)