| 厚生省 | hòu shēng shěng | Japanese ministry of health, labor and welfare |
| 原核生物 | yuán hé shēng wù | prokaryote |
| 原核生物界 | yuán hé shēng wù jiè | Kingdom Monera; prokaryote |
| 原核细胞型微生物 | yuán hé xì bāo xíng wēi shēng wù | prokaryotic cell type microorganism |
| 原生 | yuán shēng | way of life; ecology; primary |
| 原生生物 | yuán shēng shēng wù | protist; primitive organism |
| 反生物战 | fǎn shēng wù zhàn | biological (warfare) defense |
| 口齿生香 | kǒu chǐ shēng xiāng | eloquence that generates perfume (idiom); profound and significant text |
| 古生代 | Gǔ shēng dài | Paleozoic, geological era 545-250m years ago, covering Cambrian 寒武纪, Ordovician 奥陶纪, Silurian 志留纪, Devonian 泥盆纪, Carboniferous 石炭纪, Permian 二叠纪 |
| 古生物学 | gǔ shēng wù xué | palaeontology |
| 古生物学家 | gǔ shēng wù xué jiā | palaeontologist; paleobiologist |
| 可再生 | kě zài shēng | renewable (resource) |
| 可再生原 | kě zài shēng yuán | renewable resource |
| 同配生殖 | tóng pèi shēng zhí | isogamy |
吾生也有涯, 而知也无涯 | wú shēng yě yǒu yá , ér zhī yě wú yá | Life is short, learning is limitless; Ars longa, vita brevis |
| 和气生财 | hé qì shēng cái | (idiom) amiability makes you rich |
| 品味生活 | pǐn wèi shēng huó | to appreciate life |
| 哑然无生 | yǎ rán wú shēng | silence reigns (idiom) |
| 丧生 | sàng shēng | to die; lose one's life |
| 单细胞生物 | dān xì bāo shēng wù | single-celled organism |
| 单词产生器模型 | dān cí chǎn shēng qì mó xíng | logogen model |
| 四大须生 | sì dà xū shēng | Four great beards of Beijing opera, namely: Ma Lianliang 马连良, Tan Fuying 谭富英, Yang Baosen 杨宝森, Xi Xiaobo 奚啸伯 |
| 国内生产总值 | guó nèi shēng chǎn zǒng zhí | gross domestic product (GDP) |
| 土生土长 | tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng | home-grown; indigenous; native born and bred |
| 外星生命 | wài xīng shēng mìng | extraterrestrial life |
| 外科医生 | wài kē yī shēng | surgeon; as opposed to physician 内科医生, who works primarily by administering drugs |
| 多细胞生物 | duō xì bāo shēng wù | multicellular life form |
| 夜生活 | yè shēng huó | night life |
| 大中学生 | dà zhōng xué sheng | university and high school students |
| 天生的一对 | tiān shēng de yī duì | couple who were made for each other |
| 夹生 | jiā shēng | half cooked; not completely done |
| 夹生饭 | jiā shēng fàn | half cooked rice |
| 女学生 | nǚ xué shēng | schoolgirl |
| 女生 | nǚ shēng | female student |
| 女生外向 | nǚ shēng wài xiàng | woman's duty to get married (in former times); woman's orientation to her husband's family (traditional Confucian assumption) |
| 好好先生 | Hǎo hǎo xiān sheng | Mr Goody-goody; yes-man (sb who agrees with anything) |
| 妄生穿凿 | wàng shēng chuān záo | a forced analogy (idiom); to jump to an unwarranted conclusion |
| 妙笔生花 | miào bǐ shēng huā | gifted or skillful writing |
| 妙语横生 | miào yǔ hèng shēng | to be full of wit and humor |
| 妙趣横生 | miào qù héng shēng | endlessly interesting (idiom); very witty |
| 娃娃生 | wá wa shēng | infant's part in opera, usually played by child actor |
| 娇生惯养 | jiāo shēng guàn yǎng | pampered and spoiled since childhood |
| 孤雌生殖 | gū cí shēng zhí | parthenogenesis (biol. a female reproducing without fertilization) |
| 孰能生巧 | shú néng shēng qiǎo | practice makes perfect |
| 孳生 | zī shēng | to multiply; to breed |
| 学生证 | xué sheng zhèng | student identity card |
| 孪生素数 | luán shēng sù shù | (math.) twin primes |
| 宇宙生成论 | yǔ zhòu shēng chéng lùn | cosmology |
| 安徒生 | Ān tú shēng | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| 家庭生活 | jiā tíng shēng huó | home life |