私生

Chinese

		personal; private; selfish	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (私生)		私	生

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sīshēng

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄕㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ sang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sīshēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄕㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sihsheng
  - Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-shêng¹
  - Yale: sz̄-shēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sysheng
  - Palladius: сышэн (syšɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: si¹ sang¹
  - Yale: sī sāng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ sang¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ seng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
    ^edit
    師生 / 师生
    私生

Verb

私生

to give birth to a child out of wedlock
- ……又要為大腕情夫私生第三胎 [MSC, trad.]
  ……又要为大腕情夫私生第三胎 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2013, 《中國密報》第12期: 薄熙來不死毛左有戲
  ...... yòu yào wèi dàwàn qíngfū sīshēng dìsāntāi [Pinyin]
  ... will give birth again, to the third child with her celebrity lover

Adjective

私生

(of a child) born out of wedlock; illegitimate
- 從前我可以不怪您，那您現在私生的孫子橫空出世，還被您大肆宣揚，究竟又是怎麼一回事？！ [MSC, trad.]
  从前我可以不怪您，那您现在私生的孙子横空出世，还被您大肆宣扬，究竟又是怎么一回事？！ [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2016, Duanmu Chuchu (端木初初), 《先婚后爱，总裁的禁忌之恋（下）》
  Cóngqián wǒ kěyǐ bù guài nín, nà nín xiànzài sīshēng de sūnzi héngkōngchūshì, hái bèi nín dàsì xuānyáng, jiūjìng yòu shì zěnme yīhuíshì?! [Pinyin]
  I can forgive you for the things in the past, but now your illegitimate grandson was born, and you are making this news well-known - what is going on?!

Derived terms

私生女
私生子 (sīshēngzǐ)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (私生):

→ Japanese: 私(し)生(せい) (shisei)
→ Korean: 사생(私生) (sasaeng)
→ Vietnamese: tư sinh (私生)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
私	生
し Grade: 6	せい Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しせー [shìséé] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕise̞ː]

Noun

私(し)生(せい) • (shisei)

illegitimacy (being born out of wedlock)

Derived terms

私(し)生(せい)子(し) (shiseishi)
私(し)生(せい)児(じ) (shiseiji)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
私	生

Noun

私生 • (sasaeng) (hangeul 사생)

hanja form^? of 사생 (“illegitimacy”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
私	生

Adjective

私生

chữ Hán form of tư sinh (“illegitimate”)