She gave birth to a baby boy.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
生下
to give birth to
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to give birth to
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 生下 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 生下 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She gave birth to a healthy baby.
His wife gave birth to twin boys.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 生下.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 生下.
Directly before
- 她生下2
- 妻子生下1
Directly after
- 生下了3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 生下
What does 生下 mean in Chinese?
生下 (shēngxià) means to give birth to.
How do you pronounce 生下?
生下 is pronounced shēngxià.
Is 生下 an HSK word?
生下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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