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生 (pinyin shēng, "to be born") is an HSK 1 Mandarin character with 5 strokes, built on the radical 生.

New
shēng

to be born, life

Tone 1 · First tone (high level)

Radical
Strokes
5
HSK
1 · tier 1c

Commonly confused with

Characters this one is often mistaken for — same number of strokes, similar silhouette, single-component differences. Curated, not derived.

Pinyin neighbors

Characters with the same rime -eng, same-tone matches first. Many are true phonetic relatives; others are coincidental.

HanziFluency

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