生日 shēngrì▶ cumpleaños

Stroke order

生日 is written in 9 strokes across 2 characters.

• 生 — 5 strokes
• 日 — 4 strokes

Example sentences

• 今天是我的生日。Jīntiān shì wǒ de shēngrì.Today is my birthday.
• 它的生日在三月吗？Tā de shēngrì zài sān yuè ma?Is its birthday in March?
• 我的生日在五月。Wǒ de shēngrì zài wǔ yuè.My birthday is in May.
• 你生日想做什么？Nǐ shēngrì xiǎng zuò shénme?What do you want to do on your birthday?

Related words

• 日fecha
• 生病enfermarse
• 先生señor
• 医生médico
• 学生estudiante
• 生气enfadarse

生日 is pronounced shēngrì and means “cumpleaños”. You will meet it in HSK 2, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 生日 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.