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男生

nán shēng 2–1

schoolboy; male student; boy; guy (young adult male)

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
男 · 生
Syllables
2
nán shēng
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 2,784

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 男nán7 strokesHSK 1male, man; son; baron; surname
  • 生shēng5 strokesHSK 1life, living, lifetime; birth

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

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

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