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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 up
HSK 2
development / growth / to develop / to grow / to expand
HSK 3
to grow / to grow up / to be brought up
HSK 3
to grow; to increase
HSK 3
to mature / to grow / growth
HSK 3
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  *种* | 种* | *种
to plant / to grow / to cultivate
HSK 4
to plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate
HSK 4
to increase / to grow in number
HSK 5
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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
to grow to adulthood / fully grown; adult / the whole year
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 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
future prospects / profit / to mature / to grow up
HSK 7-9
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
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
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
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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
to feel terrified / to grow apprehensive
to grow hair / to become mildewed
to plant / to grow
to grow and spread
growing as a thicket / overgrown / breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
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  *滋* | 滋* | *滋
to grow / to nourish / to increase / to cause / juice / taste / (dialect) to spout / to spurt
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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)
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  *蓄* | 蓄* | *蓄
to store up / to grow (e.g. a beard) / to entertain (ideas)
to grow (a plant) in a pot / potted plant (sometimes refers specifically to a bonsai plant)
to grow up
how well a crop (or plant) is growing / growth
to grow (maize etc) from seed / to plant (maize etc) by sowing seed
to start out by / to grow an enterprise beginning with / to begin one's career by
to surge like a gathering storm (idiom) / to grow by leaps and bounds
(idiom) to live forever and never grow old
to emerge and grow / to develop
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  *莳* | 莳* | *莳
(literary) to grow / (literary) to transplant / Taiwan pr. [shi2]
two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union
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  *殖* | 殖* | *殖
to grow / to reproduce
mulberry farming / to grow mulberry for sericulture
to grow replacement teeth (zoology) / to grow permanent teeth in place of milk teeth
(of plants) to grow luxuriantly; (fig.) (of a family or business etc) to prosper; to flourish
(area where) vegetation grows / the common people
to grow light (at daybreak)
to grow old together
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  *镸* | 镸* | *镸
"long" or "to grow" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 168)
to grow the intellect / Alpinia oxyphylla, a type of ginger (Chinese medicine)
lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom) / fig. barren
to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly
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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  *蘖* | 蘖* | *蘖
new shoot growing from cut branch or stump
Deinagkistrodon acutus, a species of venomous pit viper, aka five-pace viper (i.e. can grow to five paces)
to grow crops / food growing
to grow (usually of abstract things) / to yield / to develop
sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)
to rise suddenly / to grow vigorously
to grow a beard
terminal bud (growing at the tip of a plant)
deep roots and vigorous foliage (idiom) / (fig.) well established and growing strongly
to ebb and rise / to decrease and then grow
to grow plants hydroponically
(of a couple) to grow old together in mutual respect (idiom)
field for growing happiness / domain for practices leading to enlightenment (Buddhism)
lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) / fig. not to live up to one's promises
to grow teeth; to teethe / growing teeth
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  *茽* | 茽* | *茽
vegetation growing thickly
to grow old / to age / aging
axillary bud / bud growing from axil of plant
growing flowers
to give birth / to grow (whiskers etc) / to generate / to produce
(agriculture) to switch to growing a different crop
mixed cropping (i.e. growing two crops together)
taproot (main root growing vertically down)
lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible
reunion after an absence is sweeter than being newlyweds (idiom) / absence makes the heart grow fonder
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
towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow
flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding / still growing strong / on the up
flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding / still growing strong / on the up
being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb)
food growing area
a type of poisonous fungus that grows on reeds, used in Chinese medicine to help cure patients suffering from ascaris (parasitic worms)
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 (prettier etc) / to mature into / to blossom
(idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people
hatred caused by love (idiom) / to grow to hate someone because of unrequited love for that person
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. 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
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
to grow flowers / (dialect) to vaccinate / (dialect) to grow cotton
to grow vegetables
a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising
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)
absence makes the heart grow fonder
to seem to grow younger / to regain one's youthful looks
(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
to grow all over
(idiom) to live forever and never grow old


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