增生

Chinese

		to increase; to expand; to add	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (增生)		增	生

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zēngshēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄥ ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zang¹ sang¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): cheng-seng / chng-sng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zēngshēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄥ ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zengsheng
    • Wade–Giles: tsêng¹-shêng¹
    • Yale: dzēng-shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzengsheng
    • Palladius: цзэншэн (czɛnšɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤŋ⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zang¹ sang¹
    • Yale: jāng sāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzang¹ sang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeng¹ seng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng-seng
    • Tâi-lô: tsing-sing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zengsefng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chng-sng
    • Tâi-lô: tsng-sng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zngsngf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sŋ̍³³ sŋ̍³³/

Verb

增生

1. to multiply; to proliferate; to grow

   毛髮增生／毛发增生  ―  máofà zēngshēng  ―  hair growth

Synonyms

• 乳 (rǔ) (literary, or in compounds)
• 滋生 (zīshēng)
• 生息 (shēngxī)
• 生殖 (shēngzhí)
• 繁殖 (fánzhí)
• 繁育 (fányù)
• 繁衍 (fányǎn)

 

Noun

增生

1. (pathology) hyperplasia; proliferation
2. (historical) Short for 增廣生員／增广生员 (“shengyuan admitted in addition to the quota, ranking right below the linsheng”).