在生

Chinese

Pronunciation 1

		(located) at; in; exist (located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (在生)		在	生

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zàishēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄞˋ ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoi⁶ saang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zàishēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄞˋ ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zàisheng
    • Wade–Giles: tsai⁴-shêng¹
    • Yale: dzài-shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzaysheng
    • Palladius: цзайшэн (czajšɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saɪ̯⁵¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zoi⁶ saang¹
    • Yale: joih sāang
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoi⁶ saang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zoi⁶ sang¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːi̯²² saːŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

在生

1. to be alive; to be living

Synonyms

• 在世 (zàishì)
• 存活 (cúnhuó)
• 活著／活着 (huózhe)
• 生存 (shēngcún)
• 生息 (shēngxī)

 

Pronunciation 2

		(located) at; in; exist (located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (在生)		在	生
alternative forms		怎生

• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): zai⁶ sên¹

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• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zai⁶ sên¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsăi seⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sai³⁵⁻¹¹ sẽ³³/

Adverb

在生

1. (Teochew) how

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 怎樣 (“how”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		如何, 何以, 若何
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		如何, 怎樣
Mandarin	Beijing	怎麼樣兒, 怎樣兒
	Taiwan	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
	Jinan	怎麼樣
	Xi'an	咋樣兒
	Wuhan	麼樣, 麼樣子, 哪樣, 哪樣子
	Chengdu	咋個樣, 咋個樣子, 啷個樣, 啷個樣子
	Guilin	啷子樣
	Yangzhou	怎們樣, 哪一個樣, 哪一個樣子
	Hefei	怎樣
	Malaysia	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
	Singapore	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
Cantonese	Guangzhou	點樣, 點
	Hong Kong	點樣, 點
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	點樣
	Macau	點樣, 點
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	點
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	點樣, 點樣做
	Foshan	點
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	點
	Foshan (Shunde)	點, 點樣
	Foshan (Sanshui)	點
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	點
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	點子
	Zhongshan (Huancheng)	點子
	Zhongshan (Nanlang)	點子
	Zhongshan (Xiaolan)	點
	Zhongshan (Dongsheng)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Tanbei)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Henglan)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Dongfeng)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Nantou)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Fusha)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Shalang)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Gangkou)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Huangpu)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Langwang)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Minzhong)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Banfu)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Tanzhou)	點, 點樣
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	點樣
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	點
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	點
	Taishan	幾何
	Singapore (Guangfu)	點樣, 點
Gan	Nanchang	啷樣, 啷
Hakka	Meixian	仰般, 仰仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	仰般, 仰仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	仰仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	仰般
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	仰脣, 仰
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	仰般, 仰般形
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	仰子
Jin	Taiyuan	咋, 咋底
Northern Min	Jian'ou	何如, 何如事
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	將樣, 蔣樣, 蔣其
Southern Min	Xiamen	按怎, 怎樣, 啥款
	Quanzhou	障仔, 怎樣, 按怎, 啥款
	Zhangzhou	按怎, 怎樣, 啥款
	Tainan	按怎, 怎仔樣, 怎樣仔, 啥款
	Penang (Hokkien)	按怎
	Singapore (Hokkien)	按怎
	Manila (Hokkien)	障仔, 怎樣
	Chaozhou	在生樣, 乜生樣, 做呢
	Shantou	在生
	Jieyang	在生, 在生樣
	Haifeng	做呢, 做呢樣
	Singapore (Teochew)	做呢, 在生
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	哪, 哪樣
Wu	Shanghai	哪能, 哪能介, 哪能樣子
	Suzhou	捺亨
	Wenzhou	訾那, 訾那能
Xiang	Changsha	何是, 何裡
	Shuangfeng	麼家