生老病死
Traditional form:
生老病死
Pinyin (reading):
shēnglǎobìngsǐ
Definitions:
- lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom)
- fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
Characters:
- 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
- 老 - old, aged; experienced
- 病 - sickness, illness, disease
- 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
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