生气
shēng qì 1–4
to get angry; to take offense; angry; vitality; liveliness
- Characters
- 2
- 生 · 气
- Syllables
- 2
- shēng qì
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 2,113
Part of speech: a,n,v,an
Character by character
- 生shēng5 strokesHSK 1life, living, lifetime; birth
- 气qì4 strokesHSK 1 traditional 氣steam, vapor; Kangxi radical 84
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
我很生气！
Wǒ hěn shēng qì
I'm outraged!
他生气了。
Tā shēng qì le
He got angry.
我会生气。
Wǒ huì shēng qì
I can become angry.
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 生气. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 生活shēng huóHSK 2
to live; life; livelihood
- 发生fā shēngHSK 3
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- 生shēngHSK 2
to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student
- 先生xiān shengHSK 1
teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor
- 学生xué shengHSK 1
student; schoolchild
- 生命shēng mìngHSK 3
life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature
- 气qìHSK 2
gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- 医生yī shēngHSK 1
doctor
- 人生rén shēngHSK 3
life (one's time on earth)
- 产生chǎn shēngHSK 3
to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
- 生日shēng rìHSK 1
birthday
- 一生yī shēngHSK 2
all one's life; throughout one's life
- 天气tiān qìHSK 1
weather
- 女生nǚ shēngHSK 1
schoolgirl; female student; girl
- 空气kōng qìHSK 2
air; atmosphere
- 出生chū shēngHSK 2
to be born
- 生意shēng yìHSK 3
life force; vitality
- 生物shēng wùHSK 7
organism; living creature; life form; biological
- 生产shēng chǎnHSK 3
to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
- 生存shēng cúnHSK 3
to exist; to survive
- 男生nán shēngHSK 1
schoolboy; male student; boy; guy (young adult male)
- 卫生wèi shēngHSK 3
health; hygiene; sanitation
- 勇气yǒng qìHSK 4
courage; valor
- 气氛qì fēnHSK 6
atmosphere; mood