生育
shēng yù
Pinyin

Definition

生育
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shēng yù
  1. to bear
  2. to give birth
  3. to grow
  4. to rear
  5. to bring up (children)
  6. fertility

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

人生
rén shēng
  1. 1 life (one's time on earth)
先生
Xiān sheng
  1. 1 Mister (Mr.)
女生
nu:3 shēng
  1. 1 schoolgirl
  2. 2 female student
  3. 3 girl
学生
xué sheng
  1. 1 student
  2. 2 schoolchild
生
shēng
  1. 1 to be born
  2. 2 to give birth
  3. 3 life
  4. 4 to grow
  5. 5 raw
  6. 6 uncooked
  7. 7 student
生命
shēng mìng
  1. 1 life (as the characteristic of living beings)
  2. 2 living being
  3. 3 creature
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè],條|条[tiáo]
生日
shēng rì
  1. 1 birthday
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
生活
shēng huó
  1. 1 life
  2. 2 activity
  3. 3 to live
  4. 4 livelihood
发生
fā shēng
  1. 1 to happen
  2. 2 to occur
  3. 3 to take place
  4. 4 to break out
一生
yī shēng
  1. 1 all one's life
  2. 2 throughout one's life
一生一世
yī shēng yī shì
  1. 1 a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
三生有幸
sān shēng yǒu xìng
  1. 1 the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom)
  2. 2 (courteous language) it's my good fortune...
今生
jīn shēng
  1. 1 this life
来生
lái shēng
  1. 1 next life
再生
zài shēng
  1. 1 to be reborn
  2. 2 to regenerate
  3. 3 to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person)
  4. 4 recycling
  5. 5 regeneration
出生
chū shēng
  1. 1 to be born
夜生活
yè shēng huó
  1. 1 night life
大学生
dà xué shēng
  1. 1 university student
  2. 2 college student
天生
tiān shēng
  1. 1 nature
  2. 2 disposition
  3. 3 innate
  4. 4 natural
好生
hǎo shēng
  1. 1 (dialect) very
  2. 2 quite
  3. 3 properly
  4. 4 well
  5. 5 thoroughly

Idioms (20)

一回生二回熟
yī huí shēng èr huí shú
  1. 1 unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)
一生一世
yī shēng yī shì
  1. 1 a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
七窍生烟
qī qiào shēng yān
  1. 1 lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to seethe with anger
三生有幸
sān shēng yǒu xìng
  1. 1 the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom)
  2. 2 (courteous language) it's my good fortune...
九死一生
jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
  1. 1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape
  2. 2 new lease of life
了无生趣
liǎo wú shēng qù
  1. 1 to lose all interest in life (idiom)
人生一世，草木一春
rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūn
  1. 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
人生何处不相逢
rén shēng hé chù bù xiāng féng
  1. 1 it's a small world (idiom)
人生如梦
rén shēng rú mèng
  1. 1 life is but a dream (idiom)
人生如朝露
rén shēng rú zhāo lù
  1. 1 human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
人生朝露
rén shēng zhāo lù
  1. 1 human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
人生盛衰
rén shēng shèng shuāi
  1. 1 life has its ups and downs (idiom)
再生父母
zài shēng fù mǔ
  1. 1 like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
出生入死
chū shēng rù sǐ
  1. 1 from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water
  2. 2 brave
  3. 3 willing to risk life and limb
刀不磨要生锈，人不学要落后
dāo bù mó yào shēng xiù , rén bù xué yào luò hòu
  1. 1 a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)
初生之犊不畏虎
chū shēng zhī dú bù wèi hǔ
  1. 1 lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the fearlessness of youth
初生牛犊不怕虎
chū shēng niú dú bù pà hǔ
  1. 1 lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the young are fearless
别开生面
bié kāi shēng miàn
  1. 1 to start sth new or original (idiom); to break a new path
  2. 2 to break fresh ground
劫后余生
jié hòu yú shēng
  1. 1 after the calamity, renewed life (idiom); new lease of life
厚死薄生
hòu sǐ bó shēng
  1. 1 lit. to praise the dead and revile the living
  2. 2 fig. to live in the past (idiom)

Sample Sentences

你看吧，1979年，国家出政策了，1980年开始，实行计划生育了，兄弟姐妹没有了，只剩一棵独苗苗了。
nǐ kàn ba ，1979 nián ，guójiā chū zhèngcè le ，yījiǔbālíng nián kāishǐ ，shíxíng jìhuàshēngyù le ，xiōngdì jiěmèi méiyǒu le ，zhī shèng yī kē dúmiáomiao le 。
Look, in 1979, the country came up with a policy which was launched in 1980, to implement family planning. So without brothers and sisters, only us only children remained.
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你别想那么多，替我们开心就好，当初你嫂子被诊断出不能生育，家里闹到差点要离婚，十年过去，我们终于可以有自己的孩子了...
nǐ bié xiǎng nàme duō ，tì wǒmen kāixīn jiù hǎo ，dāngchū nǐ sǎozi bèi zhěnduàn chū bùnéng shēngyù ，jiālǐ nào dào chàdiǎn yào líhūn ，shí nián guòqù ，wǒmen zhōngyú kěyǐ yǒu zìjǐ de háizi le ...
Don't overthink it, just be happy for us. Whenever your sister-in-law was diagnosed as infertile, it caused us so many problems at home that we almost got divorced. Now ten years have passed and finally we can have a child of our own...
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五险一金”是：养老保险、医疗保险、失业保险、工伤保险、生育保险和住房公积金。
wǔxiǎnyījīn ”shì ：yǎnglǎo bǎoxiǎn 、yīliáo bǎoxiǎn 、shīyè bǎoxiǎn 、gōngshāng bǎoxiǎn 、shēngyù bǎoxiǎn hé zhùfáng gōngjījīn 。
"Five social insurances and one housing fund" is: old age insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, work disability insurance, maternity insurance and housing accumulation fund.
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计划生育推行了三十年，现在终于打开一条门缝了。
jìhuàshēngyù tuīxíng le sānshí nián ，xiànzài zhōngyú dǎkāi yī tiáo ménfèng le 。
Reproductive planning has been going on for thirty years. Now there's finally a crack in it.
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计划生育还有必要吗？！
jìhuàshēngyù hái yǒu bìyào ma ？！
Why do we still need family planning?
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这还不算是赤裸裸。我上次面试，刚聊了几句，主管就问我：“哦，你是85年的，那打算什么时候结婚生小孩？”还说公司希望5年内不要生育。
zhè hái bù suàn shì chìluǒluǒ 。wǒ shàngcì miànshì ，gāng liáo le jǐjù ，zhǔguǎn jiù wèn wǒ ：“ò ，nǐ shì bāwǔnián de ，nà dǎsuàn shénme shíhou jiéhūn shēng xiǎohái ？”hái shuō gōngsī xīwàng wǔ nián nèi bù yào shēngyù 。
I don't think it's outright. The last time I interviewed, we only exchanged a few sentences when the manager asked me: “Oh, you are born in 1985. When do you plan to get married and have children?” Then he said that the company doesn't want me to have a baby within my next five years at the company.
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太可怕了！不过同性恋也挺可怜的，我们的传统文化太重视结婚和生育了，对同性恋会有异样的眼光，不承认同性婚姻，才逼迫他们走上这条路的。
tài kěpà le ！bùguò tóngxìngliàn yě tǐng kělián de ，wǒmen de chuántǒng wénhuà tài zhòngshì jiéhūn hé shēngyù le ，duì tóngxìngliàn huì yǒu yìyàng de yǎnguāng ，bù chéngrèn tóngxìng hūnyīn ，cái bīpò tāmen zǒushàng zhè tiáo lù de 。
That's frightening! However, homosexuals also have it bad. Our traditional culture emphasizes marriage and having children. It sees homosexuality as abnormal and won't permit homosexual marriage. So it compels them to go this route.
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哎，30年前我们积极响应国家计划生育政策，现在却落到这步田地！
āi ��sānshí nián qián wǒmen jījí xiǎngyìng guójiā jìhuà shēngyù zhèngcè ，xiànzài què luòdàozhèbùtiándì ！
Agh, 30 years ago we enthusiastically responded to our country's One Child Policy. Now look at this awful situation that has befallen us!
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在他们国家很难领养到吧。不像我们，每个家庭只能生育一个孩子，有些计划生育外的小孩儿，特别是女孩儿一出生就被亲生父母抛弃了。
zài tāmen guójiā hěn nán lǐngyǎng dào ba 。bù xiàng wǒmen ，měige jiātíng zhǐnéng shēngyù yī ge háizi ，yǒuxiē jìhuàshēngyù wài de xiǎoháir5 ，tèbié shì nǚháir yī chūshēng jiù bèi qīnshēngfùmǔ pāoqì le 。
It's very hard for them to adopt children in their countries. It's not like us where every family can only have one child. Some kids born despite the one-child policy, especially girls, are abandoned by their parents at birth.
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也不能说歧视吧。除了生育，就说平时，男人能经常加班出差，女人能行吗？再说了，社会对男人的期望本来就比女人高。我觉得男人做领导，女人做辅助性工作没什么不好。
yě bù néng shuō qíshì ba 。chúle shēngyù ，jiù shuō píngshí ，nánrén néng jīngcháng jiābān chūchāi ，nǚrén néng xíng ma ？zàishuō le ，shèhuì duì nánrén de qīwàng běnlái jiù bǐ nǚrén gāo 。wǒ juéde nánrén zuò lǐngdǎo ，nǚrén zuò fǔzhùxìng gōngzuò méi shénme bù hǎo 。
You can't really call that discrimination. Other than having children, under ordinary circumstances, men can often work overtime and go on business trips. Can a woman do that? Not to mention, society has higher expectations for men than women to begin with. I don't think there's anything wrong with men being leaders and woman doing supportive jobs.
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