| 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 be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student |
| 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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough |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 |