Living thing in Chinese
living thing · HSK 5
生物
- 生 to give birth to
- 物 thing
海里生活着很多奇怪的生物。 Many strange creatures live in the sea.
More words with 生 or 物
How do you say living thing in Chinese?
Living thing in Chinese is 生物 (shēng wù).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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