两世为人

两世为人 in English

liǎng shì wéi rén: (idiom) To feel as though one has returned to the world and been given a new life. It describes surviving an extremely dangerous situation.

Character breakdown

两兩 liǎng two
世 shì life
为爲 wèi because of
人 rén person

Stroke order

Le caractère 两 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 两

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 世 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 世

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 为 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 为

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 人 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 人

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

两

These are the forms of 兩, the traditional character: 两 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
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世

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
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人

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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