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生意

shēng yì 1–4

life force; vitality

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
生 · 意
Syllables
2
shēng yì
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 2,112

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 生shēng5 strokesHSK 1life, living, lifetime; birth
  • 意yì13 strokesHSK 2thought, idea, opinion; think

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 生意. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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