此生

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Chinese

		this; these	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
trad. (此生)		此	生
simp. ^#(此生)		此	生

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cǐshēng

(Zhuyin): ㄘˇ ㄕㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ci² sang¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): co³ seng¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cǐshēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄘˇ ㄕㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cǐhsheng
  - Wade–Giles: tzʻŭ³-shêng¹
  - Yale: tsž-shēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyysheng
  - Palladius: цышэн (cyšɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ci² sang¹
  - Yale: chí sāng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsi² sang¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: qi² seng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː³⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: co³ seng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰo⁴⁵³⁻²¹ ɬɛŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: co³ seng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵ³³²⁻²¹ ɬɛŋ⁵³³/

Noun

此生

this life; (in) my life
(Puxian Min) this person

Synonyms

今世 (jīnshì)
今生 (jīnshēng)
現世／现世 (xiànshì)
这一輩子 (zhè yī bèizi)

Derived terms

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “此生”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 106.

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