翻生

Chinese

		flit about; translate; turn over	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
trad. (翻生)		翻	生
simp. #(翻生)		翻	生

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan¹ saang¹
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): fan¹ sang¹
• Northern Min (KCR): huáing-sáng
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): huang¹ sen¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan¹ saang¹
    • Yale: fāan sāang
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan¹ saang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan¹ sang¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn⁵⁵ saːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fan¹ sang¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fan⁴⁴ saŋ⁴⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: huáing-sáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xuaiŋ⁵⁴ saŋ⁵⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huang¹ sen¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huang sṳⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ³³⁻²³ sɯ̃³³/

Verb

翻生

1. (Cantonese, Hakka, Northern Min, Teochew) to be brought back to life; to bring back to life

Synonyms

• 回生 (huíshēng)
• 復活／复活 (fùhuó)
• 復生／复生 (fùshēng)
• 殅 (shēng) (literary)
• 甦／苏 (sū) (literary)
• 閣活／阁活 (Hokkien)

 

Derived terms

• 死過翻生／死过翻生