新生

Chinese

		new; newly; meso- (chem.)	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
trad. (新生)		新	生
simp. ^#(新生)		新	生

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xīnshēng

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣㄕㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹ sang¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sin-seng / sin-sng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xīnshēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣㄕㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sinsheng
  - Wade–Giles: hsin¹-shêng¹
  - Yale: syīn-shēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinsheng
  - Palladius: синьшэн (sinʹšɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    心聲 / 心声
    新生
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: san¹ sang¹
  - Yale: sān sāng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: san¹ sang¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sen¹ seng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin-seng
  - Tâi-lô: sin-sing
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sinsefng
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sin⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sin⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin-sng
  - Tâi-lô: sin-sng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sinsngf
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sin³³ sŋ̍³³/

Etymology 1

Verb

新生

to be born again; to be reborn; (figurative) to be revived

Adjective

新生

(attributive) newborn; recently born
(attributive) recent; occurred or surfaced a short while ago; nascent; emerging

Derived terms

新生代
新生兒 / 新生儿 (xīnshēng'ér)
新生地
新生牙
新生物 (xīnshēngwù)
新生界

Noun

新生

new life

Etymology 2

Noun

新生

new student
新生陸續來報到。 [MSC, trad.]
新生陆续来报到。 [MSC, simp.]
Xīnshēng lùxù lái bàodào. [Pinyin]
New students are arriving one after another to register.

Derived terms

招生 (zhāoshēng)
新生訓練 / 新生训练

Etymology 3

Proper noun

新生

(～里) an urban village in Tamsui district, New Taipei City, Taiwan
(～村) Xinsheng (a village in Sandouping, Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
新	生
しん Grade: 2	せい Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しんせー [shìńséé] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕĩɰ̃se̞ː]

Noun

新(しん)生(せい) • (shinsei)

rebirth
a new birth
a new life

Derived terms

新生児

Verb

新(しん)生(せい)する • (shinsei suru) intransitive suru (stem 新(しん)生(せい)し (shinsei shi), past 新(しん)生(せい)した (shinsei shita))

be reborn

Conjugation

Conjugation of "新生する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	新生し	しんせいし	shinsei shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	新生し	しんせいし	shinsei shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	新生する	しんせいする	shinsei suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	新生する	しんせいする	shinsei suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	新生すれ	しんせいすれ	shinsei sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	新生せよ¹ 新生しろ²	しんせいせよ¹ しんせいしろ²	shinsei seyo¹ shinsei shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	新生される	しんせいされる	shinsei sareru
Causative	新生させる新生さす	しんせいさせるしんせいさす	shinsei saseru shinsei sasu
Potential	新生できる	しんせいできる	shinsei dekiru
Volitional	新生しよう	しんせいしよう	shinsei shiyō
Negative	新生しない	しんせいしない	shinsei shinai
Negative continuative	新生せず	しんせいせず	shinsei sezu
Formal	新生します	しんせいします	shinsei shimasu
Perfective	新生した	しんせいした	shinsei shita
Conjunctive	新生して	しんせいして	shinsei shite
Hypothetical conditional	新生すれば	しんせいすれば	shinsei sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“新生”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026