Wiktionary

生物

Chinese edit

 
to be born; to give birth; life
to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
 thing; object; matter
simp. and trad.
(生物) 		生 物

Pronunciation edit

Rime
Character 生 物
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 庚 (109) 物 (60)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) II III
Fanqie 所庚切 文弗切
Baxter sraeng mjut
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʃˠæŋ/ /mɨut̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʃᵚaŋ/ /miut̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʃaŋ/ /miuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʂaɨjŋ/ /mut̚/
Li
Rong 		/ʃɐŋ/ /miuət̚/
Wang
Li 		/ʃɐŋ/ /mĭuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʂɐŋ/ /mi̯uət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shēng wù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sang1 mat6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 生 物
Reading # 1/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shēng wù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sræng › ‹ mjut ›
Old
Chinese 		/*sreŋ/ (MC srj- > sr-; or *s.reŋ ?) /*C.mut/
English bear, be born; live thing

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 生 物
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 11312 13218
Phonetic
component 		生 勿
Rime
group 		耕 物
Rime
subdivision 		0 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		生 物
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰleːŋ/ /*mɯd/

Noun edit

生物

  1. (biology) organism; living being; lifeform (Classifier: 個／个)
  2. biology (study of all life or living matter)

Synonyms edit

  • (organism):

Antonyms edit

Adjective edit

生物

  1. (attributive) biological; bio-

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (生物):

Japanese edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
生 物
せい
Grade: 1 		ぶつ
Grade: 3
on’yomi
 生物 on Japanese Wikipedia

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

生(せい)物(ぶつ) • (seibutsu) 

  1. an organism; a life form
    Synonym: 生き物 (ikimono)

See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
生 物
なま
Grade: 1 		もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 生物 – see the following entry.
【なまもの】
[noun] raw / unprocessed food
Alternative spelling
生もの
(This term, 生物, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References edit

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja in this term
生物

Noun edit

生物 • (saengmul) (hangeul 생물)

  1. Hanja form? of 생물 (“organism”).

Vietnamese edit

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
生物

Noun edit

生物

  1. chữ Hán form of sinh vật (“organism”).
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