| 生态城市 |
shēng tài chéng shì |
sustainable city |
| 生 |
shēng |
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) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽) |
| 生态 |
shēng tài |
ecology (the study of interactions between organisms and their environment) / ecological state (the condition or health of a natural environment) / (fig.) ecosystem (a complex network, e.g. in tech, business or media, as in 数字生态 "digital ecosystem") |
| 态 |
tài |
(bound form) / appearance / shape / form / state / attitude / (grammar) voice |
| 城 |
chéng |
city walls / city / town / CL:座,道,个 |
| 城市 |
chéng shì |
city; town / CL:座 |
| 市 |
shì |
market / city / municipality (administrative unit) / (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods |