Lifetime in Chinese
lifetime · 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 lifetime
More words with 一 or 生
How do you say lifetime in Chinese?
Lifetime in Chinese is 一生 (yī shēng). You can also say 寿命 (shòu mìng), 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.