生死

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Chinese

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to be born; to give birth; life
to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
 
to die; impassable; uncrossable
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
 
trad. (生死)
simp. #(生死)
anagram 死生

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Initial () (21) (21) (16)
Final () (109) (109) (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () II II III
Fanqie
Baxter sraeng sraengH sijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠæŋ/ /ʃˠæŋH/ /sˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚaŋ/ /ʃᵚaŋH/ /sᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃaŋ/ /ʃaŋH/ /siɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂaɨjŋ/ /ʂaɨjŋH/ /sjiX/
Li
Rong
/ʃɐŋ/ /ʃɐŋH/ /sjiX/
Wang
Li
/ʃɐŋ/ /ʃɐŋH/ /siX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂɐŋ/ /ʂɐŋH/ /siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shēng shèng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sang1 sang3 si2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 3/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shēng shēng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sræng › ‹ srjæng › ‹ sijX ›
Old
Chinese
/*sreŋ/ (MC srj- > sr-; or *s.reŋ ?) /*sreŋ/ (or *s.reŋ ?) /*sijʔ/
English bear, be born; live bear, be born; live die (v.)

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
No. 11312 11322 12006
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰleːŋ/ /*sreŋs/ /*hljiʔ/

Verb

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生死

  1. to live and die
    關係生死大事 [MSC, trad.]
    关系生死大事 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhè shì guānxì dào shēngsǐ de dàshì. [Pinyin]
    This is a matter of life and death.

Derived terms

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Adjective

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生死

  1. (attributive) life-and-death

Adverb

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生死

  1. (Sichuanese) anyway

Synonyms

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
せい
Grade: 1

Grade: 3
on'yomi

Noun

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(せい)() (seishi

  1. life and death; dead or alive
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Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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生死 (saengsa) (hangeul 생사)

  1. hanja form? of 생사 (life-and-death)

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Verb

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生死

  1. chữ Hán form of sinh tử (to live and die).