天生

天生 tiānshēng in a sentence

Inborn (innate - inherent)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 4 sentences

天生 (tiānshēng) means Inborn (innate - inherent). Below are 4 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

没有人 天生 就会。

Méiyǒu rén tiānshēng jiù huì.

Nobody is born knowing how.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 天生

他 天生 就适合做这一行。

Tā tiānshēng jiù shìhé zuò zhè yì háng.

He is a natural for this line of work.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 天生

工厂每 天生 产十吨纸。

Gōngchǎng měi tiān shēngchǎn shí dūn zhǐ.

The factory produces ten tons of paper a day.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 吨

他嗓音条件得天独厚, 天生 适合唱歌。

Tā sǎngyīn tiáojiàn détiāndúhòu, tiānshēng shìhé chànggē.

His voice is exceptionally gifted; he was born to sing.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 得天独厚

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How is 天生 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 天生 (tiānshēng, "Inborn (innate - inherent)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 天生 an HSK word?

Yes — 天生 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 天生 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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