生
부수: 生
획수: 5획
生 has the meanings, ‘life’, ‘fresh’ and ‘person’.
生 = 生
X = semantic
• 生 depicts a growing plant and represents meanings associated with ‘life’
Evolution:
生 = ’to grow’ ➔ ’life’ ➔ ’raw/fresh’
生 = ’to grow’ ➔ ’life’ ➔ ’person’
生 = ’to grow’ ➔ ’to make’
Mnemonic
Look at the original form and see how it depicts sprouting vegetation. Imagine the accented stroke 丿 as a single leaf germinating from a plant.
Vocab
| 生物 | 생물 | organism; living thing; creature |
| 生日 | 생일 | birthday |
| 生活 | 생활 | life; living; existence |
| 生命 | 생명 | life |
| 生存 | 생존 | survival, survive |
| 生鮮 | 생선 | raw fish |
| 出生 | 출생 | birth |
| 人生 | 인생 | life (human) |
| 生氣 | 생기 | liveliness; vitality |
| 蘇生 | 소생 | revival; resuscitation |
| 生産 | 생산 | production; manufacture |
| 苦生 | 고생 | trouble; hardship |
| 學生 | 학생 | student |
| 生放送 | 생방송 | live broadcast |
| 發生學 | 발생학 | embryology |
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Bibliography
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 181]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Henshall, K.G. (1998). A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, [s.v. 42]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 生].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 44]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.