Dictionary › 余生

余生

yú shēng

2-character word Traditional 餘生

What 余生 means

1. the remaining years of one's life
2. survival (after a disaster)

The characters in 余生

• 余yú(literary) I; me; variant of 余
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 我想和你共渡余生。
  I want to spend my life with you.
• 这里是我余生想待的地方
  This is where I want to live for the rest of my life.

Words containing 余生

• 劫后余生jié hòu yú shēng(idiom) to be a survivor of a calamity
• 虎口余生hǔ kǒu yú shēnglit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom); fig. to narrowly escape death

Sounds the same

Read yú shēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鱼生sliced raw fish