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Mythic Mandarin

一生 (yī shēng): meaning and stroke order

一生 (yī shēng) means all one's life; throughout one's life.

一生

Simplified
一生
Traditional
一生 (same form)
Pinyin
yī shēng

Stroke order of 一生

一

  • yī one; single
  • 1 stroke

Stroke by stroke

生

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 一生

  1. yī shēng
    • all one's life; throughout one's life

Radicals of the characters

一
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 1 stroke
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.

一生 in our stories

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  • 七百多年前的南宋，有一位叫宋慈的官员，一生审理过无数案件，被后人称为“法医学之父”。

    qībǎi duō nián qián de Nán Sòng yǒu yí wèi jiào Sòng Cí de guānyuán yìshēng shěnlǐ guò wúshù ànjiàn bèi hòurén chēngwéi fǎyīxué zhī fù

    Over seven hundred years ago, in the Southern Song, there was an official named Song Ci who handled countless cases in his life and was later called the father of forensic medicine.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 一根竹杖，一双草鞋，比骑马还轻松，有什么好怕的？披着蓑衣在风雨里走，这就是我的一生。

    yì gēn zhúzhàng yì shuāng cǎoxié bǐ qímǎ hái qīngsōng yǒu shénme hǎo pà de pī zhe suōyī zài fēngyǔ lǐ zǒu zhè jiùshì wǒ de yìshēng

    A bamboo staff and a pair of straw sandals are easier than riding a horse—what is there to fear? Walking through wind and rain in a straw cape: that is my life.

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

Stories using 一生

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).