| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 世 | 世 | shì | - life - age - generation - era - world - lifetime - epoch - descendant - noble |
| 命 | 命 | mìng | - life - fate - order or command - to assign a name, title etc |
| 寿 | 壽 | shòu | - long life - old age - age - life - birthday - funerary |
| 春 | 春 | chūn | - spring (time) - gay - joyful - youthful - love - lust - life |
| 生 | 生 | shēng | - to be born - to give birth - life - to grow - raw - uncooked - student |
| 身 | 身 | shēn | - body - life - oneself - personally - one's morality and conduct - the main part of a structure or body - pregnant - classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset - Kangxi radical 158 |
| 性命 | 性命 | xìngmìng | - life |
| 活命 | 活命 | huómìng | - life - to survive - to save a life - to scrape a living |
| 生命 | 生命 | shēngmìng | - life - living - biological - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 生活 | 生活 | shēnghuó | - life - activity - to live - livelihood |
| 拼 | 拼 | pīn | - to piece together - to join together - to stake all - adventurous - at the risk of one's life - to spell |
| 一生 | 一生 | yīshēng | - all one's life - throughout one's life |
| 下世 | 下世 | xiàshì | - to die - future incarnation - next life - to be born - to come into the world - future generation |
| 世事 | 世事 | shìshì | - affairs of life - things of the world |
| 享福 | 享福 | xiǎngfú | - to live comfortably - happy and prosperous life |
| 人事 | 人事 | rénshì | - personnel - human resources - human affairs - ways of the world - (euphemism) sexuality - the facts of life |
| 人命 | 人命 | rénmìng | - human life - CL:條|条[tiao2] |
| 人生 | 人生 | rénshēng | - life (one's time on earth) |
| 今世 | 今世 | jīnshì | - this life - this age |
| 今生 | 今生 | jīnshēng | - this life |
| 来生 | 來生 | láishēng | - next life |
| 保命 | 保命 | bǎomìng | - to save one's life - to survive |
| 做活 | 做活 | zuòhuó | - to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker) - life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋[wei2 qi2] |
| 俭薄 | 儉薄 | jiǎnbó | - to lack the necessities of life |
| 偿命 | 償命 | chángmìng | - to pay with one's life |
| 元神 | 元神 | yuánshén | - primordial spirit - fundamental essence of life |
| 全活 | 全活 | quánhuó | - to save life - to rescue - the whole business with all its processes |
| 再造 | 再造 | zàizào | - to give a new lease of life - to reconstruct - to reform - to rework - to recycle - to reproduce (copies, or offspring) - restoration - restructuring |
| 半死 | 半死 | bànsǐ | - half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc) - (tired) to death - (terrified) out of one's wits - (beaten) to within an inch of one's life - (knock) the daylights out of sb |
| 各界 | 各界 | gèjiè | - all walks of life - all social circles |
| 命危 | 命危 | mìngwēi | - critical - life threatening (medicine) |
| 命根 | 命根 | mìnggēn | - lifeblood - the thing that one cherishes most in life - (coll.) family jewels (male genitals) |
| 命途 | 命途 | mìngtú | - the course of one's life - one's fate |
| 丧命 | 喪命 | sàngmìng | - to lose one's life |
| 丧生 | 喪生 | sàngshēng | - to die - to lose one's life |
| 尘世 | 塵世 | chénshì | - this mortal life - the mundane world |
| 增年 | 增年 | zēngnián | - to lengthen life |
| 壮年 | 壯年 | zhuàngnián | - lit. robust years - prime of life - summer - able-bodied (fit for military service) - mature (talent, garden etc) |
| 寿命 | 壽命 | shòumìng | - life span - life expectancy - lifetime (of a machine) |
| 寿数 | 壽數 | shòushu | - predestined length of life |
| 寿考 | 壽考 | shòukǎo | - long life - life span |
| 寿限 | 壽限 | shòuxiàn | - lifetime - length of life |
| 寿险 | 壽險 | shòuxiǎn | - life insurance - abbr. for 人壽保險|人寿保险 |
| 天职 | 天職 | tiānzhí | - vocation - duty - mission in life |
| 失足 | 失足 | shīzú | - to lose one's footing - to slip - to take a wrong step in life |
| 写实 | 寫實 | xiěshí | - realism - realistic portrayal - realistic - true to life |
| 屏退 | 屏退 | bǐngtuì | - to send away - to dismiss (servants etc) - to retire from public life |
| 平生 | 平生 | píngshēng | - all one's life |
| 年寿 | 年壽 | niánshòu | - length of life - life span |
| 年月 | 年月 | niányuè | - months and year - time - days of one's life |
| 延寿 | 延壽 | Yánshòu | - Yanshou county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1], Heilongjiang - to extend life |
| 延年 | 延年 | yánnián | - to prolong life |
| 后尘 | 後塵 | hòuchén | - lit. trailing dust - fig. sb's footsteps - course in life |
| 复生 | 復生 | fùshēng | - to be reborn - to recover - to come back to life - to regenerate |
| 慎独 | 慎獨 | shèndú | - to preserve a proper behavior in private life |
| 恋家 | 戀家 | liànjiā | - home-loving - to feel a strong attachment to home life - to begrudge being away from home |
| 投生 | 投生 | tóushēng | - reborn (of departed spirit) - to be reincarnated - to leave home for a new life |
| 拚死 | 拚死 | pànsǐ | - to risk one's life |
| 拼死 | 拼死 | pīnsǐ | - to go all out for sth at risk of one's life |
| 拼杀 | 拼殺 | pīnshā | - to grapple (with the enemy) - to fight at the risk of one's life |
| 捐命 | 捐命 | juānmìng | - to lay down one's life |
| 捐生 | 捐生 | juānshēng | - to sacrifice one's life |
| 捐躯 | 捐軀 | juānqū | - to sacrifice one's life |
| 舍命 | 捨命 | shěmìng | - to risk one's life |
| 舍身 | 捨身 | shěshēn | - to give one's life |
| 救命 | 救命 | jiùmìng | - to save sb's life - (interjection) Help! - (interjection) Save me! |
| 救活 | 救活 | jiùhuó | - to bring back to life |
| 救生 | 救生 | jiùshēng | - to save a life - life-saving |
| 新生 | 新生 | xīnshēng | - new - newborn - emerging - nascent - rebirth - regeneration - new life - new student |
| 日子 | 日子 | rìzi | - day - a (calendar) date - days of one's life |
| 日月 | 日月 | rìyuè | - the sun and moon - day and month - every day and every month - season - life and livelihood |
| 昧死 | 昧死 | mèisǐ | - to risk one's life |
| 更生 | 更生 | gēngshēng | - resurrection - rebirth - reinvigorated - rejuvenated - a new lease of life |
| 朝露 | 朝露 | zhāolù | - morning dew - fig. precarious brevity of human life - ephemeral |
| 归队 | 歸隊 | guīduì | - to return to one's unit - to go back to one's station in life |
| 死活 | 死活 | sǐhuó | - life or death - fate - no matter what - anyway - for the life of me |
| 死生 | 死生 | sǐshēng | - life or death - critical (event) |
| 水灵 | 水靈 | shuǐlíng | - vivid - full of life - fresh |
| 永生 | 永生 | yǒngshēng | - to live forever - eternal life - all one's life |
| 没命 | 沒命 | méimìng | - to lose one's life - to die - recklessly - desperately |
| 浪花 | 浪花 | lànghuā | - spray - ocean spray - spindrift - fig. happenings from one's life - CL:朵[duo3] |
| 淡泊 | 淡泊 | dànbó | - living a simple life |
| 演活 | 演活 | yǎnhuó | - (of an actor) to bring (one's character) to life - to act brilliantly |
| 牺牲 | 犧牲 | xīshēng | - to sacrifice one's life - to sacrifice (sth valued) - beast slaughtered as a sacrifice |
| 现世 | 現世 | xiànshì | - this life - to lose face - to be disgraced |
| 生前 | 生前 | shēngqián | - (of a deceased) during one's life - while living |
| 生平 | 生平 | shēngpíng | - life (a person's whole life) - in one's entire life |
| 生意 | 生意 | shēngyì | - life force - vitality |
| 生机 | 生機 | shēngjī | - opportunity to live - to reprieve from death - life force - vitality |
| 生死 | 生死 | shēngsǐ | - life or death |
| 生涯 | 生涯 | shēngyá | - career - life (way in which sb lives) - period of one's life |
| 生灭 | 生滅 | shēngmiè | - life and death |
| 生物 | 生物 | shēngwù | - organism - living creature - life form - biological - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 生猛 | 生猛 | shēngměng | - full of life - violent - brave - fresh (of seafood) |
| 生路 | 生路 | shēnglù | - lit. the path to life - way out of a predicament |
| 毕生 | 畢生 | bìshēng | - all one's life - lifetime |
| 盛年 | 盛年 | shèngnián | - the prime of one's life |
| 禄命 | 祿命 | lùmìng | - person's lot through life |
| 索命 | 索命 | suǒmìng | - to demand sb's life |
| 终天 | 終天 | zhōngtiān | - all day long - all one's life |
| 终生 | 終生 | zhōngshēng | - throughout one's life - lifetime - lifelong |
| 终身 | 終身 | zhōngshēn | - lifelong - all one's life - marriage |
| 致命 | 致命 | zhìmìng | - fatal - mortal - deadly - to sacrifice one's life |
| 苟存 | 苟存 | gǒucún | - to drift through life |
| 英年 | 英年 | yīngnián | - the prime of one's life - youthful years |
| 葱郁 | 蔥鬱 | cōngyù | - verdant - lush green and full of life |
| 要强 | 要強 | yàoqiáng | - eager to excel - eager to get ahead in life - strong-minded |
| 解甲 | 解甲 | jiějiǎ | - to remove armor - to return to civilian life |
| 誓死 | 誓死 | shìsǐ | - to pledge one's life |
| 谋害 | 謀害 | móuhài | - to conspire to murder - to plot against sb's life |
| 起居 | 起居 | qǐjū | - everyday life - regular pattern of life |
| 蹉跎 | 蹉跎 | cuōtuó | - wasted time - to take a wrong step in life |
| 辈子 | 輩子 | bèizi | - all one's life - lifetime |
| 送命 | 送命 | sòngmìng | - to lose one's life - to get killed |
| 逃命 | 逃命 | táomìng | - to escape - to flee - to run for one's life |
| 逃生 | 逃生 | táoshēng | - to flee for one's life |
| 逼真 | 逼真 | bīzhēn | - lifelike - true to life - distinctly - clearly |
| 过活 | 過活 | guòhuó | - to live one's life - to make a living |
| 遐龄 | 遐齡 | xiálíng | - advanced age - longevity - long life |
| 还乡 | 還鄉 | huánxiāng | - to return home - fig. to retire from public life |
| 邪径 | 邪徑 | xiéjìng | - depraved life - evil ways - fornication |
| 邪道 | 邪道 | xiédào | - depraved life - evil ways - fornication |
| 长生 | 長生 | chángshēng | - long life |
| 长逝 | 長逝 | chángshì | - to depart this life - to be no more |
| 闲居 | 閑居 | xiánjū | - to lead a quiet and peaceful life in retirement - to stay home with nothing to do - to lead a solitary life |
| 际遇 | 際遇 | jìyù | - luck - fate - opportunity - the ups and downs of life |
| 青山 | 青山 | qīngshān | - green hills - (the good) life |
| 风尘 | 風塵 | fēngchén | - windblown dust - hardships of travel - vicissitudes of life - prostitution |
| 飘蓬 | 飄蓬 | piāopéng | - to float in the wind - by ext., to lead a wandering life |
| 养活 | 養活 | yǎnghuo | - to provide for - to keep (animals, a family etc) - to raise animals - to feed and clothe - support - the necessities of life - to give birth |
| 饶命 | 饒命 | ráomìng | - to spare sb's life |
| 点睛 | 點睛 | diǎnjīng | - to dot in the eyes - fig. to add finishing touch - abbr. for idiom 畫龍點睛|画龙点睛, to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes - the crucial point that brings the subject to life |
| 下辈子 | 下輩子 | xiàbèizi | - the next life |
| 保鲜期 | 保鮮期 | bǎoxiānqī | - shelf life - freshness date |
| 半条命 | 半條命 | bàntiáomìng | - half a life - only half alive - barely alive - (scared, beaten etc) half to death |
| 夜生活 | 夜生活 | yèshēnghuó | - night life |
| 性生活 | 性生活 | xìngshēnghuó | - sex life |
| 拉家常 | 拉家常 | lājiācháng | - to talk or chat about ordinary daily life |
| 救生圈 | 救生圈 | jiùshēngquān | - life buoy - life belt - (jocularly) flab - spare tire |
| 救生衣 | 救生衣 | jiùshēngyī | - life jacket - life vest |
| 正当年 | 正當年 | zhèngdāngnián | - to be in the prime of life |
| 水灵灵 | 水靈靈 | shuǐlínglíng | - vivid - full of life - fresh |
| 玩儿命 | 玩兒命 | wánrmìng | - to gamble with life - to take reckless risks |
| 第二春 | 第二春 | dìèrchūn | - (lit.) second spring - (fig.) falling in love for the second time - a new lease of life - rebirth |
| 赖校族 | 賴校族 | làixiàozú | - campus dwellers (slang) - graduates who cannot break away from campus life |
| 过日子 | 過日子 | guòrìzi | - to live one's life - to pass one's days - to get along |
| 青壮年 | 青壯年 | qīngzhuàngnián | - the prime of one's life |
| 黄昏恋 | 黃昏戀 | huánghūnliàn | - fig. romantic relationship between an elderly couple - falling in love in the autumn of one's life |
| 一生一世 | 一生一世 | yīshēngyīshì | - a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life |
| 九死一生 | 九死一生 | jiǔsǐyīshēng | - nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape - new lease of life |
| 人寿保险 | 人壽保險 | rénshòubǎoxiǎn | - life insurance |
| 人生如梦 | 人生如夢 | rénshēngrúmèng | - life is but a dream (idiom) |
| 人生盛衰 | 人生盛衰 | rénshēngshèngshuāi | - life has its ups and downs (idiom) |
| 创巨痛深 | 創巨痛深 | chuāngjùtòngshēn | - untold pain and suffering (idiom); deeply scarred for life |
| 劫后余生 | 劫後餘生 | jiéhòuyúshēng | - after the calamity, renewed life (idiom); new lease of life |
| 千锤百炼 | 千錘百鍊 | qiānchuíbǎiliàn | - after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom) - the vicissitudes of life |
| 各界人士 | 各界人士 | gèjièrénshì | - all walks of life |
| 各行各业 | 各行各業 | gèhánggèyè | - every trade - all professions - all walks of life |
| 命途坎坷 | 命途坎坷 | mìngtúkǎnkě | - to have a tough life - to meet much adversity in one's life |
| 品味生活 | 品味生活 | pǐnwèishēnghuó | - to appreciate life |
| 大限临头 | 大限臨頭 | dàxiànlíntóu | - facing the end (idiom); at the end of one's life - with one foot in the grave |
| 威尊命贱 | 威尊命賤 | wēizūnmìngjiàn | - orders weightier than life |
| 富贵寿考 | 富貴壽考 | fùguìshòukǎo | - rank, wealth, and long life |
| 平均寿命 | 平均壽命 | píngjūnshòumìng | - life expectancy |
| 延年益寿 | 延年益壽 | yánniányìshòu | - to make life longer - to promise longevity - (this product will) extend your life |
| 悲欢离合 | 悲歡離合 | bēihuānlíhé | - joys and sorrows - partings and reunions - the vicissitudes of life |
| 惟妙惟肖 | 惟妙惟肖 | wéimiàowéixiào | - to imitate to perfection - to be remarkably true to life |
| 爱之如命 | 愛之如命 | àizhīrúmìng | - inordinately fond of sth - lit. to love it as one's life |
| 拼命三郎 | 拼命三郎 | pīnmìngsānláng | - brave man, willing to risk his life |
| 舍生取义 | 捨生取義 | shěshēngqǔyì | - to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius); to choose honor over life - would rather sacrifice one's life than one's principles |
| 摇身一变 | 搖身一變 | yáoshēnyībiàn | - to change shape in a single shake - fig. to take on a new lease of life |
| 政治生活 | 政治生活 | zhèngzhìshēnghuó | - political life |
| 春秋鼎盛 | 春秋鼎盛 | chūnqiūdǐngshèng | - the prime of one's life |
| 曾经沧海 | 曾經滄海 | céngjīngcānghǎi | - lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom) - fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life |
| 有生以来 | 有生以來 | yǒushēngyǐlái | - since birth - for one's whole life |
| 望子成龙 | 望子成龍 | wàngzǐchénglóng | - lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life - to have great hopes for one's offspring - to give one's child the best education as a career investment |
| 枯木逢春 | 枯木逢春 | kūmùféngchūn | - lit. the spring comes upon a withered tree (idiom) - fig. to get a new lease on life - to be revived - (of a difficult situation) to suddenly improve |
| 栩栩如生 | 栩栩如生 | xǔxǔrúshēng | - vivid and lifelike (idiom); true to life - realistic |
| 历尽沧桑 | 歷盡滄桑 | lìjìncāngsāng | - to have been through the hardships of life - to have been through the mill |
| 死中求生 | 死中求生 | sǐzhōngqiúshēng | - to seek life in death (idiom); to fight for one's life |
| 死去活来 | 死去活來 | sǐqùhuólái | - to hover between life and death (idiom) - to suffer terribly - within an inch of one's life |
| 死而后已 | 死而後已 | sǐérhòuyǐ | - until death puts an end (idiom); one's whole life - unto one's dying day |
| 求田问舍 | 求田問舍 | qiútiánwènshè | - lit. to be interested exclusively in the acquisition of estate (idiom) - fig. to have no lofty aspirations in life |
| 油盐酱醋 | 油鹽醬醋 | yóuyánjiàngcù | - (lit.) oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar - (fig.) the trivia of everyday life |
| 活灵活现 | 活靈活現 | huólínghuóxiàn | - living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life - vivid and realistic |
| 活龙活现 | 活龍活現 | huólónghuóxiàn | - living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life - vivid and realistic |
| 无期徒刑 | 無期徒刑 | wúqītúxíng | - life imprisonment |
| 生命科学 | 生命科學 | shēngmìngkēxué | - life sciences |
| 生命迹象 | 生命跡象 | shēngmìngjìxiàng | - sign of life |
| 生命周期 | 生命週期 | shēngmìngzhōuqī | - life cycle |
| 生机盎然 | 生機盎然 | shēngjīàngrán | - full of life - exuberant |
| 生死肉骨 | 生死肉骨 | shēngsǐròugǔ | - lit. the dead returning to life - a miracle (idiom) |
| 生死关头 | 生死關頭 | shēngsǐguāntóu | - the critical moment - life and death crisis |
| 生活方式 | 生活方式 | shēnghuófāngshì | - way of life - lifestyle |
| 生活美学 | 生活美學 | shēnghuóměixué | - appreciation of the finer things in life |
| 生活资料 | 生活資料 | shēnghuózīliào | - consumer goods - means of livelihood - means of subsistence - documents relating to sb's life |
| 画龙点睛 | 畫龍點睛 | huàlóngdiǎnjīng | - to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch - the crucial point that brings the subject to life - a few words to clinch the point |
| 看破红尘 | 看破紅塵 | kānpòhóngchén | - to see through the world of mortals (idiom, of Buddhist monk) - disillusioned with human society - to reject the world for a monastic life |
| 神采奕奕 | 神采奕奕 | shéncǎiyìyì | - in glowing spirits (idiom); bursting with life - radiating health and vigor |
| 福寿绵长 | 福壽綿長 | fúshòumiáncháng | - good luck and long life |
| 粉身碎骨 | 粉身碎骨 | fěnshēnsuìgǔ | - lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom) - fig. to die horribly - to sacrifice one's life |
| 精神生活 | 精神生活 | jīngshénshēnghuó | - spiritual or moral life |
| 终身监禁 | 終身監禁 | zhōngshēnjiānjìn | - life sentence |
| 维妙维肖 | 維妙維肖 | wéimiàowéixiào | - to imitate to perfection - to be remarkably true to life |
| 绘声绘色 | 繪聲繪色 | huìshēnghuìsè | - vivid and colorful (idiom); true to life - lively and realistic |
| 自行了断 | 自行了斷 | zìxíngliǎoduàn | - to take one's life |
| 花天酒地 | 花天酒地 | huātiānjiǔdì | - to spend one's time in drinking and pleasure (idiom); to indulge in sensual pleasures - life of debauchery |
| 花样年华 | 花樣年華 | huāyàngniánhuá | - the prime of life |
| 英勇牺牲 | 英勇犧牲 | yīngyǒngxīshēng | - to heroically sacrifice one's life |
| 处世之道 | 處世之道 | chǔshìzhīdào | - way of life - attitude - modus operandi |
| 解甲归田 | 解甲歸田 | jiějiǎguītián | - to remove armor and return to the farm - to return to civilian life |
| 貂裘换酒 | 貂裘換酒 | diāoqiúhuànjiǔ | - lit. to trade a fur coat for wine (idiom) - fig. (of wealthy people) to lead a dissolute and extravagant life |
| 贪生怕死 | 貪生怕死 | tānshēngpàsǐ | - greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly - clinging abjectly to life - only interested in saving one's neck |
| 起居作息 | 起居作息 | qǐjūzuòxī | - lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) - fig. everyday life - daily routine - to go about one's daily life |
| 遁入空门 | 遁入空門 | dùnrùkōngmén | - to take refuge in religious life |
| 酸甜苦辣 | 酸甜苦辣 | suāntiánkǔlà | - sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot - fig. the joys and sorrows of life |
| 重新做人 | 重新做人 | chóngxīnzuòrén | - to start a new life - to make a fresh start |
| 铁窗生活 | 鐵窗生活 | tiěchuāngshēnghuó | - time served in prison - prison life |
| 长期饭票 | 長期飯票 | chángqīfànpiào | - (fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life |
| 风花雪月 | 風花雪月 | fēnghuāxuěyuè | - wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance - love affair - romance is in the air - dissipated life |
| 饱经风霜 | 飽經風霜 | bǎojīngfēngshuāng | - weather-beaten - having experienced the hard ship of life |
| 点睛之笔 | 點睛之筆 | diǎnjīngzhībǐ | - the brush stroke that dots in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch - the crucial point that brings the subject to life - a few words to clinch the point |
| 冒生命危险 | 冒生命危險 | màoshēngmìngwēixiǎn | - to risk one's life |
| 寿保险公司 | 壽保險公司 | shòubǎoxiǎngōngsī | - life insurance company |
| 冒着生命危险 | 冒著生命危險 | màozheshēngmìngwēixiǎn | - at the risk of one's life |
| 生命在于运动 | 生命在於運動 | shēngmìngzàiyúyùndòng | - life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations) - Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle). - Life derives from physical exercise. |
| 十指不沾阳春水 | 十指不沾陽春水 | shízhǐbùzhānyángchūnshuǐ | - to have no need to fend for oneself (idiom) - to lead a pampered life |
| 老婆孩子热炕头 | 老婆孩子熱炕頭 | lǎopóháizirèkàngtou | - wife kids and a warm bed (idiom); the simple and good life - longa est vita si plena est - la dolce vita |
| 人生短暂，学术无涯 | 人生短暫，學術無涯 | rénshēngduǎnzàn,xuéshùwúyá | - Life is short, learning is limitless - Ars longa, vita brevis |
| 日出而作，日入而息 | 日出而作，日入而息 | rìchūérzuò,rìrùérxī | - lit. to get up at sunrise and work until sunset (proverb) - fig. to lead a plain and hardworking life |
| 生于忧患，死于安乐 | 生於憂患，死於安樂 | shēngyúyōuhuàn,sǐyúānlè | - to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom) - life springs from sorrow and calamity, death comes from ease and pleasure |
| 鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已 | 鞠躬盡瘁，死而後已 | jūgōngjìncuì,sǐérhòuyǐ | - to bend to a task and spare no effort unto one's dying day (idiom); striving to the utmost one's whole life - with every breath in one's body, unto one's dying day |
| 吾生也有涯，而知也无涯 | 吾生也有涯，而知也無涯 | wúshēngyěyǒuyá,érzhīyěwúyá | - Life is short, learning is limitless - Ars longa, vita brevis |
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