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development / growth / to develop / to grow / to expand
HSK 3
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  *生* | 生* | *生
to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
HSK 2
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  *长* | 长* | *长
chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance
HSK 2
to grow; to increase
HSK 3
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  *园* | 园* | *园
land used for growing plants / site used for public recreation / abbr. for a place ending in 園|园, such as a botanical garden 植物園|植物园, kindergarten 幼兒園|幼儿园 etc
HSK 6
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  *种* | 种* | *种
to plant / to grow / to cultivate
HSK 4
to grow up
HSK 2
to mature / to grow / growth
HSK 3
to plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate
HSK 4
to grow / to grow up / to be brought up
HSK 3
to grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the world / (esp. of a child) sensible; thoughtful; intelligent
HSK 7-9
to increase steadily / to grow with each passing day
HSK 7-9
to increase / to grow in number
HSK 5
two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union
to grow old together
to grow light (at daybreak)
to grow to adulthood / fully grown; adult / the whole year
HSK 7-9
growing as a thicket / overgrown / breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch)
HSK 7-9
to grow / to cultivate / to train / to educate / to patronize
HSK 7-9
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  *栽* | 栽* | *栽
to plant; to grow / to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign) / to impose sth on sb / to stumble; to fall down
HSK 7-9
to rise suddenly / to grow vigorously
(area where) vegetation grows / the common people
towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow
growing flowers
to grow plants hydroponically
future prospects / profit / to mature / to grow up
HSK 7-9
food growing area
to grow (prettier etc) / to mature into / to blossom
to grow crops / food growing
absence makes the heart grow fonder
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect / (of a tree) to grow to full size / to become useful for timber
lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) / fig. not to live up to one's promises
to grow (usually of abstract things) / to yield / to develop
caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) (The fungus grows within the body of a caterpillar, culminating in the emergence of a stalked fruiting body from the caterpillar's head, and is a much-prized and expensive ingredient used as a tonic in traditional Chinese medicine.)
to grow replacement teeth (zoology) / to grow permanent teeth in place of milk teeth
to emerge and grow / to develop
to grow (a plant) in a pot / potted plant (sometimes refers specifically to a bonsai plant)
to surge like a gathering storm (idiom) / to grow by leaps and bounds
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
to grow old / to age / aging
mulberry farming / to grow mulberry for sericulture
a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising
to grow up
to grow teeth; to teethe / growing teeth
(idiom) to live forever and never grow old
to grow hair / to become mildewed
to grow the intellect / Alpinia oxyphylla, a type of ginger (Chinese medicine)
to plant / to grow
(idiom) to live forever and never grow old
hatred caused by love (idiom) / to grow to hate someone because of unrequited love for that person
to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly
to grow vegetables
lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it
to give birth / to grow (whiskers etc) / to generate / to produce
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  *茽* | 茽* | *茽
vegetation growing thickly
to start out by / to grow an enterprise beginning with / to begin one's career by
(idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people
to grow flowers / (dialect) to vaccinate / (dialect) to grow cotton
how well a crop (or plant) is growing / growth
flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding / still growing strong / on the up
deep roots and vigorous foliage (idiom) / (fig.) well established and growing strongly
terminal bud (growing at the tip of a plant)
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  *秀* | 秀* | *秀
(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful / (bound form) superior; excellent / (loanword) show / (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears
lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom) / fig. barren
flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding / still growing strong / on the up
to grow and multiply without end
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  *镸* | 镸* | *镸
"long" or "to grow" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 168)
lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible
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  *殖* | 殖* | *殖
to grow / to reproduce
lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb) / fig. cannot be easily eliminated / abbr. to 野火春風|野火春风
to grow (maize etc) from seed / to plant (maize etc) by sowing seed
being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb)
to grow a beard
lit. idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you / (fig.) unintentional actions may bring unexpected success / also written 無心插柳柳成蔭|无心插柳柳成荫
flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding / still growing strong / on the up
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  *滋* | 滋* | *滋
to grow / to nourish / to increase / to cause / juice / taste / (dialect) to spout / to spurt
to grow a beard as a symbol of one's determination (as Mei Lanfang 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳 growing a beard and refusing to perform for the Japanese)
(of a couple) to grow old together in mutual respect (idiom)
to grow all over
to feel terrified / to grow apprehensive
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  *蓄* | 蓄* | *蓄
to store up / to grow (e.g. a beard) / to entertain (ideas)
to ebb and rise / to decrease and then grow
sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
to seem to grow younger / to regain one's youthful looks
reunion after an absence is sweeter than being newlyweds (idiom) / absence makes the heart grow fonder
(of plants) to grow luxuriantly; (fig.) (of a family or business etc) to prosper; to flourish
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  *莳* | 莳* | *莳
(literary) to grow / (literary) to transplant / Taiwan pr. [shi2]
(agriculture) to switch to growing a different crop
a type of poisonous fungus that grows on reeds, used in Chinese medicine to help cure patients suffering from ascaris (parasitic worms)
field for growing happiness / domain for practices leading to enlightenment (Buddhism)
axillary bud / bud growing from axil of plant
(Chinese legend) a patch of scales on a dragon's neck that grow in the opposite direction, which when touched enrages the dragon / (fig.) sensitive subject or trigger issue that provokes a strong emotional reaction when sb's views on it are challenged
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  *蘖* | 蘖* | *蘖
new shoot growing from cut branch or stump
to grow and spread
mixed cropping (i.e. growing two crops together)
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  *苑* | 苑* | *苑
(literary) enclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc; imperial garden; park / (literary) center (of arts, literature etc)
taproot (main root growing vertically down)


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