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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 生老病死
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 生老病死 | shēng - lǎo - bìng - sǐ | - lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) - fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality) |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 27,869 | 41,373 | 23,231 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 生 | shēng | - to be born - to give birth - life - to grow - raw - uncooked - student |
| 老 | lǎo | - prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity - old (of people) - venerable (person) - experienced - of long standing - always - all the time - of the past - very - outdated - (of meat etc) tough |
| 病 | bìng | - illness - CL:場|场[chang2] - disease - to fall ill - defect |
| 死 | sǐ | - to die - impassable - uncrossable - inflexible - rigid - extremely - damned |
Other Words Containing 生老病死
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 生老病死 | - | - | 27,869 | 41,373 | 23,231 |