在生

Chinese

Pronunciation 1

		(located) at; in; exist (located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (在生)		在	生

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zàishēng

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄞˋ ㄕㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zoi⁶ saang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zàishēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄞˋ ㄕㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zàisheng
  - Wade–Giles: tsai⁴-shêng¹
  - Yale: dzài-shēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzaysheng
  - Palladius: цзайшэн (czajšɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saɪ̯⁵¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
    ^edit
    再生
    在生
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zoi⁶ saang¹
  - Yale: joih sāang
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoi⁶ saang¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zoi⁶ sang¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːi̯²² saːŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

在生

to be alive; to be living

Synonyms

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健在 (jiànzài) (of a person of advanced age)
在世 (zàishì)
存活 (cúnhuó)
活著 / 活着 (huózhe)
生存 (shēngcún)
生息 (shēngxī)

Pronunciation 2

		(located) at; in; exist (located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (在生)		在	生
alternative forms		怎生再生

Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): zai⁶ sên¹

Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zai⁶ sên¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsăi seⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sai³⁵⁻¹¹ sẽ³³/

Adverb

在生

(Teochew) how
- Late Qing/Early Republic, 《古板上海案全歌》, volume 1, 潮州 [Chaozhou]: 李萬利, page 12r:
  
  若是少爷一𠇮丧 /不知日后是再生 [Teochew, simp.]
  若是少爺一𠇮喪 /不知日後是再生 [Teochew, trad.]
  riag⁸ si⁶ siao³ ia⁵ zêg⁸ mia⁷ sang³ / m⁶ zai¹ rig⁸ ao⁶ si⁶ zai⁶ sên¹ [Peng'im]
  Should Young Master lose his life, who knows how the future will be?

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 怎樣 (“how”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		如何, 何以, 若何
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		如何, 怎樣
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	怎麼樣兒, 怎樣兒
	Taiwan	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
	Malaysia	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
	Singapore	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	怎麼樣
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	咋樣兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	咋個樣, 咋個樣子, 啷個樣, 啷個樣子
	Wuhan	麼樣, 麼樣子, 哪樣, 哪樣子
	Guilin	啷子樣
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	怎們樣, 哪一個樣, 哪一個樣子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Hefei	怎樣
Cantonese	Guangzhou	點樣, 點
	Hong Kong	點樣, 點
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	點樣
	Macau	點樣, 點
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	點
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	點樣, 點樣做
	Foshan	點
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	點
	Foshan (Shunde)	點, 點樣
	Foshan (Sanshui)	點
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	點
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	點子
	Zhongshan (Huancheng)	點子
	Zhongshan (Nanlang)	點子
	Zhongshan (Xiaolan)	點
	Zhongshan (Dongsheng, Xiaolan)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Tanbei, Xiaolan)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Henglan)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Dongfeng)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Nantou)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Fusha)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Shalang)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Gangkou)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Huangpu)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Langwang, Minzhong)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Minzhong)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Banfu)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Tanzhou)	點, 點樣
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	點樣
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	點
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	點
	Taishan	幾何
	Singapore (Guangfu)	點樣, 點
Gan	Nanchang	啷樣, 啷
Hakka	Meixian	仰般, 仰仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	仰般, 仰仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	仰仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	仰般
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	仰脣, 仰
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	仰般, 仰般形
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	仰子
Jin	Taiyuan	咋, 咋底
Northern Min	Jian'ou	何如, 何如事
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	將樣, 蔣樣, 蔣其
Southern Min	Xiamen	按怎, 怎樣, 啥款
	Quanzhou	障仔, 怎樣, 按怎, 啥款
	Zhangzhou	按怎, 怎樣, 啥款
	Tainan	按怎, 怎仔樣, 怎樣仔, 啥款
	Penang (Hokkien)	按怎
	Singapore (Hokkien)	按怎
	Manila (Hokkien)	障仔, 怎樣
	Chaozhou	在生樣, 乜生樣, 做呢
	Shantou	在生
	Jieyang	在生, 在生樣
	Haifeng	做呢, 做呢樣
	Singapore (Teochew)	做呢, 在生
Puxian Min	Putian	甚生
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	厄甚生
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	甚生
	Xianyou	甚生
	Xianyou (Fengting)	甚生
	Xianyou (Youyang)	甚生
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	哪, 哪樣
Wu	Shanghai	哪能, 哪能介, 哪能樣子
	Suzhou	捺亨
	Wenzhou	訾那, 訾那能
Xiang	Changsha	何是, 何裡
Xiang	Shuangfeng	麼家