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生老病死

shēng lǎo bìng sǐ

4-character word

What 生老病死 means

1. (lit.) to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom)
2. (fig.) the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)

The characters in 生老病死

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 病bìngillness; disease; to fall ill
• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable