一生

yī shēng

HSK 2freq #1626

Meanings

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yī shēng

1.all one's life; throughout one's life

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Wiktionary

1.lifetime; all one's life; one's whole life

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Stroke order

Components

一㇐

生龶㇒

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Characters

Example sentences

他一生獨身。
He remained single all his life.
你想如何过完一生？
What do you want to do with your life?
我一生都谨慎行事。
I've been careful my whole life.
你们两个误了我一生。
The two of you have ruined my life.
他给我讲述了他的一生。
He told me the story of his life.
所有病人最終無一生還。
All the patients eventually died.

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Derived terms

一死一生一生一世一生受用不盡一生受用不尽一生喫著不盡一生吃著不尽九死一生十死一生百死一生萬死一生万死一生註孤生注孤生

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Related words

一生一世 a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life 九死一生 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape 科学技术是第一生产力 science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平[Dèng Xiǎo píng] introducing the Four Modernizations 四个现代化[sì ge xiàn dài huà])