人生

Character by character

• 人rén2 strokesHSK 1man; people; mankind; someone else
• 生shēng5 strokesHSK 1life, living, lifetime; birth

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 那就是人生

  Nà jiù shì rén shēng

  Such is life!

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 人生. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 人rénHSK 1

  person; people

• 生活shēng huóHSK 2

  to live; life; livelihood

• 发生fā shēngHSK 3

  to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out

• 女人nǚ rénHSK 1

  woman

• 别人bié renHSK 1

  other people; others; other person

• 男人nán rénHSK 1

  a man; a male; men

• 有人yǒu rénHSK 2

  someone; people; anyone; there is someone there; occupied (as in restroom)

• 人们rén menHSK 2

  people

• 生shēngHSK 2

  to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student

• 先生xiān shengHSK 1

  teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor

• 个人gè rénHSK 3

  individual; personal; oneself

• 学生xué shengHSK 1

  student; schoolchild

• 人员rén yuánHSK 3

  staff; crew; personnel

• 生命shēng mìngHSK 3

  life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature

• 医生yī shēngHSK 1

  doctor

• 人民rén mínHSK 3

  the people

• 人类rén lèiHSK 3

  humanity; human race; mankind

• 产生chǎn shēngHSK 3

  to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate

• 病人bìng rénHSK 1

  sick person; patient; invalid

• 人物rén wùHSK 5

  person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); figure painting (as a genre of traditional Chinese painting)

• 生日shēng rìHSK 1

  birthday

• 家人jiā rénHSK 1

  family member; (old) servant

• 一生yī shēngHSK 2

  all one's life; throughout one's life

• 敌人dí rénHSK 4

  enemy