生物

Chinese
 
to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
 thing; object; matter
simp. and trad.
(生物)		 生 物

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 生 物
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 庚 (109) 物 (60)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) II III
Fanqie 所庚切 文弗切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʃˠæŋ/ /mɨut̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʃᵚaŋ/ /miut̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʃaŋ/ /miuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʂaɨjŋ/ /mut̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʃɐŋ/ /miuət̚/
Wang
Li		 /ʃɐŋ/ /mĭuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʂɐŋ/ /mi̯uət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shēng wù
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 生 物
Reading # 1/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shēng wù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sræng › ‹ mjut ›
Old
Chinese		 /*sreŋ/ (MC srj- > sr-; or *s.reŋ ?) /*C.mut/
English bear, be born; live thing

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 生 物
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 11312 13218
Phonetic
component		 生 勿
Rime
group		 耕 物
Rime
subdivision		 0 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 生 物
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰleːŋ/ /*mɯd/

Noun

生物

  1. (biology) organism; living being; lifeform (Classifier: 個／个)
  2. biology (study of all life or living matter)

Synonyms
  • (organism):

Antonyms
  • 死物

Adjective

生物

  1. (attributive) biological; bio-

Derived terms
Derived terms from 生物

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (生物):

Japanese
Kanji in this term
生 物
せい
Grade: 1		 ぶつ
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) せ​ーぶつ [séꜜèbùtsù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [se̞ːbɯ̟ᵝt͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

生物 (hiragana せいぶつ, rōmaji seibutsu)

  1. an organism; a life form
    Synonym: 生き物 (ikimono)

See also

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
生物

Noun

生物 • (saengmul) (hangeul 생물)

  1. Hanja form? of 생물 (“organism”).

Vietnamese
Hán tự in this word
生物

Noun

生物

  1. Hán tự form of sinh vật (“organism”).
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