HSK 4 · Verbs

出生 chūshēng “to be born” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 出生 means

  1. to be born

How to say 出生

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale出chū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale生shēng1st tone, high and level

出生 in a sentence

  1. 她是什么时候出生的?

    Tā shì shénme shíhou chūshēng de?

    When was she born?

    Sentence #332914 from Tatoeba

  2. 我出生在上海。

    Wǒ chūshēng zài Shànghǎi.

    I was born in Shanghai.

    Sentence #9991970 from Tatoeba

  3. 我在冬天出生。

    Wǒ zài dōngtiān chūshēng.

    I was born in winter.

    Sentence #887849 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 出生 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 出 (chū) with each of its parts in a different colour
出chūto go out; to come out
  • 屮sprout · chè
  • 凵open box · kǎn

Memory aidA foot stepping up out of an opening 凵: to go out.

The character 生 (shēng) drawn as one shape
生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce

生 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidA shoot growing up out of the soil 土: to grow, to be born.

How to write 出生

出 5 strokes · 生 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

出生 (chūshēng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 出生 (chūshēng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 出生

Words with 出

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FAQs

出生 (chūshēng) means “to be born”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it chūshēng: chū with a 1st tone, then shēng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 出生 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chusheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 出生 from the suggestions. Typing chusheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
出生 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.