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毕生

bì shēng

2-character word Traditional 畢生

What 毕生 means

1. one's whole life; throughout one's life

The characters in 毕生

• 毕bìthe whole of; to finish; to complete
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 有的工作只是工作，有的工作是你毕生的事业。
  Yǒude gōngzuò zhǐshì gōngzuò, yǒude gōngzuò shì nǐ bìshēng de shìyè.
  There’s work and there’s your life’s work.

Sounds the same

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

• 毕昇Bi Sheng (990-1051), inventor of movable type