土生土長 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 土生土长 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. tǔshēngtǔzhǎng ㄊㄨˇ ㄕㄥ ㄊㄨˇ ㄓㄤˇ 男 女 (of people) born and raised in the locality (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset wholly indigenous idiom Character by character 土(tǔ)earth 生(shēng)grow 土(tǔ)earth 長(zhǎng)grow A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT