生口

Chinese

		to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw	mouth; (a measure word, for people, livestock or utensils)
simp. and trad. (生口)		生	口

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēngkǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ ㄎㄡˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēngkǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ ㄎㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shengkǒu
    • Wade–Giles: shêng¹-kʻou³
    • Yale: shēng-kǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shengkoou
    • Palladius: шэнкоу (šɛnkou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

生口

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   Synonym: 活口

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (生口):

• → Japanese: 生口(せいこう) (seikō)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
生	口
せい Grade: 1	こう Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Literary Chinese 生口 (shēngkǒu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [se̞ːko̞ː]

Noun

生(せい)口(こう) • (seikō) 

1. prisoner of war or slave (as mentioned in Chinese historiography regarding China, Korea, and Japan)

   Hypernyms: 捕虜 (horyo, “prisoner of war”), 奴隷 (dorei, “slave”)