to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born, to arise; to occur, to light (a fire), to live; to be alive, life, raw; uncooked; unprocessed, unfamiliar; strange, (bound form) student; person engaged in a field, (bound form) male role in traditional opera, (bound form) life; lifetime, (bound form) means of livelihood, (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
to draw out; to pull out from in between, to remove part of the whole, to inhale (esp. smoke), (of fabric etc) to shrink, (of certain plants) to sprout; to bud, to whip; to thrash, classifier for sheets (of tissues, wet wipes etc)