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Mythic Mandarin

人生 (rén shēng): meaning and stroke order

人生 (rén shēng) means life (one's time on earth).

人生

Simplified
人生
Traditional
人生 (same form)
Pinyin
rén shēng

Stroke order of 人生

人

  • rén person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

生

  • shēng to be born; to give birth
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 人生

  1. rén shēng
    • life (one's time on earth)

Radicals of the characters

人
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 2 strokes
生
Radical 生 (Kangxi radical 100) · 5 strokes · built from 𠂉 and 土

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

人生 in our stories

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  • 这首词写的是一场雨，说的却是他的人生：监狱、贬官、贫穷，都是雨；可雨总会停，重要的是走路的人不要慌。

    zhè shǒu cí xiě de shì yì cháng yǔ shuō de què shì tā de rénshēng jiānyù biǎnguān pínqióng dōu shì yǔ kě yǔ zǒng huì tíng zhòngyào de shì zǒu lù de rén bú yào huāng

    The lyric is about a shower of rain, but it speaks of his life: prison, demotion, poverty were all rain; but rain always stops, and what matters is that the walker doesn't panic.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 人生

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).