生寄死归生寄死歸

生寄死归生寄死歸 in English

shēng jì sǐ guī: (idiom) Life is a temporary lodging and death a return. The expression means that one does not regard life and death as ultimate concerns and is ready to face either.

Character breakdown

生 shēng to be born
寄 jì to send
死 sǐ to die
归歸 guī to return

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 生

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 死

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 归

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

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

How it used to be written

生

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

寄

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

死

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 23 forms

归

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 20 forms

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

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