生命力

Chinese

		life	power; force; strength
simp. and trad. (生命力)		生命	力

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shēngmìnglì

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄥㄇㄧㄥˋ ㄌㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sang¹ ming⁶ lik⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): seng¹ ming⁵ lih⁷

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shēngmìnglì
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄥㄇㄧㄥˋ ㄌㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shengmìnglì
  - Wade–Giles: shêng¹-ming⁴-li⁴
  - Yale: shēng-mìng-lì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shengminqlih
  - Palladius: шэнминли (šɛnminli)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ miŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sang¹ ming⁶ lik⁶
  - Yale: sāng mihng lihk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sang¹ ming⁶ lik⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: seng¹ ming⁶ lig⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐŋ⁵⁵ mɪŋ²² lɪk̚²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: seng¹ ming⁵ lih⁷
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: seng-mīng-li̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛŋ⁵³³⁻⁵⁵ miŋ¹¹ liʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: seng¹ ming⁵ lih⁷
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻⁵⁵ miŋ²¹ liʔ⁴/

Noun

生命力

vitality
(historical) vis vitalis
生命力學說／生命力学说 ― shēngmìnglì xuéshuō ― vitalism

Synonyms

朝氣 / 朝气 (zhāoqì)
活力 (huólì)
活氣 / 活气 (huóqì)
生意 (shēngyì) (literary)
生機 / 生机 (shēngjī)
生氣 / 生气 (shēngqì)

References

李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 40.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
生	命	力
せい Grade: 1	めい Grade: 3	りょく Grade: 1
on'yomi

Noun

生(せい)命(めい)力(りょく) • (seimeiryoku)

vigour, vitality

Korean

Hanja in this term
生	命	力

Noun

生命力 • (saengmyeongnyeok) (hangeul 생명력)

hanja form^? of 생명력 (“vitality”)