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生涯

shēng yá

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

生涯 (shēng yá) means "career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 生涯 means

1. career
2. life (way in which sb lives)
3. period of one's life

The characters in 生涯

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 涯yáborder; horizon; shore

Example sentences

• 他的政治生涯完蛋了。
  Tā de zhèngzhì shēngyá wándàn le.
  His political career has ended.
• 他的政治生涯结束了。
  His political career has ended.

Words containing 生涯

• 戎马生涯róng mǎ shēng yáarmy life (idiom); the experience of war

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