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人生

rén shēng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

人生 (rén shēng) means "life (one's journey through life)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 人生 means

1. life (one's time on earth)

The characters in 人生

• 人rénperson; people
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 那就是人生
  Nà jiùshì rénshēng
  Such is life!
• 人生良苦。
  Life is very hard.
• 这就是人生！
  This is life!
• 人生会继续。
  Life goes on.
• 没有人生还。
  No one escaped alive.
• 人生不是凸的。
  Rénshēng bù shì tū de.
  Life is not convex.

Words starting with 人生

• 人生地不熟rén shēng dì bù shúto be a stranger in a strange land (idiom); in an unfamiliar place without friends or…
• 人生导师rén shēng dǎo shīlife mentor
• 人生朝露rén shēng zhāo lùhuman life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human…
• 人生如朝露rén shēng rú zhāo lùhuman life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human…
• 人生如梦rén shēng rú mènglife is but a dream (idiom)
• 人生路不熟rén shēng lù bù shúeverything is unfamiliar
• 人生何处不相逢rén shēng hé chù bù xiāng féngit's a small world (idiom)
• 人生一世，草木一春rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūnMan has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence

Where 人生 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Life, Fate & Command (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read rén shēng correctly.
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