寿壽 in English

How it used to be written

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

• Bronze script 西周中期
• Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
• See all 16 forms

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

Examples

• 一些人用手吃寿司。

  Some people eat sushi with their hands.

• 为什么不尝尝寿司？

  Why don't you have some sushi?

• 女人通常比男人寿命长。

  Women generally live longer than men.

• 女性通常比男性长寿。

  Women generally live longer than men.

• 她不喜欢寿司。

  She does not like sushi.

• 有人告诉过我，我们每抽一根烟，寿命就会缩短七分钟。

  Someone told me that every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes away from your life.

All example sentences with 寿