人生 in English
- life (one's time on earth)
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
生
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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人人生来平等。
All men are created equal.
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人生不是凸的。
Life is not convex.
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人生即是一场梦。
Life is a dream.
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人生只不过是场梦罢了。
Life is only a dream.
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人生就像骑单车一样,要保持平衡就得不停地前进。
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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人生是不公平的,是吧?
Life isn't fair, is it?
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人生短暂,用来担心这种事情,实在太浪费了。
Life is too short to worry about things like that.
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他一个人生活。
He lives by himself.