增生

Chinese

		to increase; to expand; to add	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (增生)		增	生

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zēngshēng

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄥㄕㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zang¹ sang¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): cheng-seng / chng-sng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zēngshēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄥㄕㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zengsheng
  - Wade–Giles: tsêng¹-shêng¹
  - Yale: dzēng-shēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzengsheng
  - Palladius: цзэншэн (czɛnšɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤŋ⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zang¹ sang¹
  - Yale: jāng sāng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzang¹ sang¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zeng¹ seng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng-seng
  - Tâi-lô: tsing-sing
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zengsefng
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chng-sng
  - Tâi-lô: tsng-sng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zngsngf
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sŋ̍³³ sŋ̍³³/

Verb

增生

to multiply; to proliferate; to grow
毛髮增生／毛发增生 ― máofà zēngshēng ― hair growth

Synonyms

乳 (rǔ) (literary, or in compounds)
滋生 (zīshēng)
生息 (shēngxī)
生殖 (shēngzhí)
繁殖 (fánzhí)
繁育 (fányù)
繁衍 (fányǎn)

Noun

增生

(pathology) hyperplasia; proliferation
(historical) short for 增廣生員／增广生员 (“shengyuan admitted in addition to the quota, ranking right below the linsheng”)