All one's life in Chinese
all one's life · HSK 4
一生
- 一 one
- 生 to give birth to
这件事我一生都不会忘。 I'll never forget this my whole life.
Other ways to say all one's life
More words with 一 or 生
How do you say all one's life in Chinese?
All one's life in Chinese is 一生 (yī shēng). You can also say 终身 (zhōng shēn), 一辈子 (yī bèi zi).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.