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
alternative forms	生儂／生侬 Min
anagram	人生

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shēngrén

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄥㄖㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): saang¹ jan⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sâng-ngìn
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ca¹ nang² / cann¹ nang²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chheⁿ-lâng / chhiⁿ-lâng / seⁿ-lâng / siⁿ-lâng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shēngrén
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄥㄖㄣˊ
  - 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 Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sâng-ngìn
  - Hakka Romanization System: sang^ˊ ngin^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sang¹ ngin²
  - Sinological IPA: /saŋ²⁴ ŋin¹¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ca¹ nang² [Phonetic: ca⁵ nang²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: chaⁿ-náng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰa⁵³³⁻¹¹ naŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: cann¹ nang² [Phonetic: cann⁵ nang²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰã⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ naŋ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheⁿ-lâng
  - Tâi-lô: tshenn-lâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhvelaang
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰẽ⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiⁿ-lâng
  - Tâi-lô: tshinn-lâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chvilaang
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seⁿ-lâng
  - Tâi-lô: senn-lâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: svelaang
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sẽ⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siⁿ-lâng
  - Tâi-lô: sinn-lâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: svilaang
  - IPA (Taipei): /sĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²⁴/

Note:

chheⁿ-lâng/chhiⁿ-lâng - stranger;
seⁿ-lâng/siⁿ-lâng - living person.

Verb

生人

(of a person) to be born

Synonyms

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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

stranger
(literary) living person

Synonyms

(stranger):

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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)

References

小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “生人”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 130
小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “生人”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[2] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 667
莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “生人”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 72.
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 33.