| 生老病死 |
shēng lǎo bìng sǐ |
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality) |
| 生 |
shēng |
to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽) |
| 老 |
lǎo |
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough |
| 病 |
bìng |
illness / CL:场 / disease / to fall ill / defect |
| 病死 |
bìng sǐ |
to fall ill and die / to die of illness |
| 死 |
sǐ |
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned |