Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「有生之年」.
Learn about the idiom 「有生之年」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
The last years of a life are the remaining years.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǒu shēng zhī nián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yau5 sang1 ji1 nin4
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