Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「人生如寄」 and how it’s used.
The featured idiom 「人生如寄」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Ji: reside, stay temporarily. It means that human life is short, like a temporary sojourn in this world.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rén shēng rú jì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 sang1 yu4 gei3
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