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终生

zhōng shēng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 終生

终生 (zhōng shēng) means "throughout one's life; lifetime; lifelong". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 终生 means

1. throughout one's life
2. lifetime; lifelong

The characters in 终生

• 终zhōngend; finish
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 她终生未婚。
  Tā zhōngshēng wèihūn.
  She remained single all her life.
• 我的终生目标是成为一名作家。
  Wǒ de zhōngshēng mùbiāo shì chéngwéi yī míngzuò jiā.
  My goal in life is to be a novelist.

Words starting with 终生

• 终生伴侣zhōng shēng bàn lǚlifelong partner or companion

Sounds the same

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

• 钟声the sound of a bell
• 中声the medial (vowel or diphthong) of a Korean syllable
• 终声the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable)

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