- 一生一世 yīshēngyīshì lifetimea whole lifetime; all one's life
- 九死一生 jiǔsǐyīshēng narrow escapesurviving a life-threatening situation against overwhelming odds; a narrow escape or a new lease of life
- 其一生 qíyīshēng whole lifethe duration of one's entire life; throughout one's life.
- 科学技术是第一生产力 kēxuéjìshùshìdìyīshēngchǎnlì primary productive forcescience and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping introducing the Four Modernizations)
- 终其一生 zhōngqíyīshēng all one's lifefor the entirety of one's life; from beginning to end of one's life