放生

Pinyin: fàng shēng
Meaning：Free captive animals
Sentence：如果我厨房里有只苍蝇的话，他会花上半小时捉住它，然后再把它放生。If there was a fly in my kitchen, he'll catch it and spend half an hour before he set it free.

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放：

Pinyin: fàng
Meaning: To release; to free
Radical: 攵
Stokes: 8
Traditional: 放
Common words/Phrase:
放大 [fàng dà] 【enlarge】
放弃 [fàng qì] 【to renounce】
放映 [fàng yìng] 【project】
放心 [fàng xīn] 【to set one's mind at rest】
放假 [fàng jià] 【have a holiday】

生：

Pinyin: shēng
Meaning: Accrue; crude; give birth to; grow; living; procreate; rawness; student; unripe
Radical: 生
Stokes: 5
Traditional: 生
Common words/Phrase:
生育 [shēng yù] 【give birth to】
生殖 [shēng zhí ] 【give birth to】
生长 [shēng zhǎng] 【grow】
生存 [shēng cún] 【live; exist】
生态 [shēng tài] 【zoology】