生老病死

Chinese

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to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw

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old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)

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ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect

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to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid

|- !simp. and trad.
(生老病死) | 生 | 老 | 病 | 死 |}

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shēnglǎobìngsǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄥㄌㄠˇ ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄙˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sang¹ lou⁵ beng⁶ sei²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shēnglǎobìngsǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄥㄌㄠˇ ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄙˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenglaobinqsyy
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ piŋ⁵¹ sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sang¹ lou⁵ beng⁶ sei²
  - Yale: sāng lóuh behng séi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sang¹ lou⁵ beng⁶ sei²
  - Guangdong Romanization: seng¹ lou⁵ béng⁶ séi²
  - IPA ^(key): /sɐŋ⁵⁵ lou̯¹³ pɛːŋ²² sei̯³⁵/

Idiom

生老病死

(Buddhism) to be born, to get old, to become ill and to die; fate of humankind; mortality

See also

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