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寿命

shòu mìng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 壽命

寿命 (shòu mìng) means "life span". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 寿命 means

1. life span
2. life expectancy
3. lifetime (of a machine)

The characters in 寿命

• 寿shòulong life; old age; age
• 命mìnglife; fate; order or command

Example sentences

• 蝴蝶的寿命短。
  The life span of a butterfly is short.
• 海龟的寿命很长。
  Hǎiguī de shòumìng hěn cháng.
  Sea turtles have a long lifespan.
• 女人通常比男人寿命长。
  Women generally live longer than men.
• 合理地喂狗可以延长宠物寿命。
  Hélǐ de wèi gǒu kěyǐ yáncháng chǒngwù shòumìng.
  If you feed your dog properly, you can increase his lifespan.
• 有人告诉过我，我们每抽一根烟，寿命就会缩短七分钟。
  Yǒurén gàosu guo wǒ, wǒmen měi chōu yī gēn yān, shòumìng jiù huì suōduǎn qī fēnzhōng.
  Someone told me that every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes away from your life.
• 鲟鱼有时长得比一些它的捕食者还大，寿命甚至能超过50年。
  Sturgeons can sometimes live for over 50 years, growing so large that few predators hunt them.

Words starting with 寿命

• 寿命不长shòu mìng bù chángone's days are numbered; not to have long to live (often fig.)

Words containing 寿命

• 平均寿命píng jūn shòu mìnglife expectancy

Sounds the same

Read shòu mìng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 受命ordained or appointed to a post; to benefit from counsel
• 授命to give orders

Where 寿命 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shòu mìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.