shēng​lǎo​bìng​sǐ

mortality

  • created sense approved 生老病死 · shēng​lǎo​bìng​sǐ · mortality — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    生老病死

    shēng​lǎo​bìng​sǐ

    mortality

    The human cycle of birth, aging, illness, and death; originally a Buddhist term for the four inevitable miseries of human existence

    生 (literal) → 生 · shēng · life 老 (literal) → 老 · lǎo · old 病 (literal) → 病 · bìng · illness 死 (literal) → 死 · sǐ · to die

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    created sense

  • created sense approved 生老病死 · shēng​lǎo​bìng​sǐ · life events — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    生老病死

    shēng​lǎo​bìng​sǐ

    life events

    Collective term for social matters related to birth, old-age care, medical treatment, and funerals

    生 (literal) → 生 · shēng · life 老 (literal) → 老 · lǎo · old 病 (literal) → 病 · bìng · illness 死 (literal) → 死 · sǐ · to die

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense