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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

萌生

méngshēng

to burgeon

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to burgeon

02

to produce

03

to conceive

04

to be in the initial stage

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 萌生 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 萌生 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

两人之间萌生了爱情。liǎng rén zhī jiān méng shēng le ài qíng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

春雨过后,嫩芽从泥土中萌生。chūn yǔ guò hòu, nèn yá cóng ní tǔ zhōng méng shēng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

他心中忽然萌生了一个大胆的念头。tā xīn zhōng hū rán méng shēng le yí gè dà dǎn de niàn tou。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 萌生.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 萌生.

Directly before

  • 之间萌生1
  • 中萌生1
  • 忽然萌生1

Directly after

  • 萌生了2
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 萌生

What does 萌生 mean in Chinese?

萌生 (méngshēng) means to burgeon.

How do you pronounce 萌生?

萌生 is pronounced méngshēng.

Is 萌生 an HSK word?

萌生 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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